Start with a tree |
Straighten the top and the sides. |
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Remove the waste with hammer and wedges |
Shape the inside with a traditional adze |
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Shape the propulsion equipment! |
The course members with Damien Goodburn (left) |
All hands to the rope to move the craft to the lake |
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It works! |
An eight day course in building a dug-out boat was held this summer to produce a craft that is now moored on the millpond. The boat is based on Anglo-Saxon dugouts excavated from the river Arun at Amberley and Hardham. |
