Your place and mine kilkeel boat builder once the largest in northern ireland - depended heavily upon him to build and repair wooden boats naturally want. Boat building & woodcraft. meitheal of currachs and wooden boats. we build wooden boats too and have developed one-off the celtic lands but now exclusive to. How to build a boat, wooden if you want to build a boat from wood the have a look at the project boats being built by andrew in tasmania and eddie in ireland..
I have just over a year left here at the apprenticeshop in rockland. my interest in traditional irish craft has been growing over the past couple of years. i have been considering living and building boats in one of irelands coastal towns as one of my post apprenticeship options. one of the biggest hurdles besides moving all my stuff across the. The traditional boats of ireland project is the result of a combined effort by irish people who are passionate about the rich diversity of boat types throughout the country.. The currach represents one of two traditions of boat and shipbuilding in ireland: the skin-covered vessel and the wooden vessel. the flimsy construction of the former makes it unlikely that any remains would be available for the marine archaeologist, but its antiquity is clear from written sources..
