Restoring an old boat, operation longer and more complex than we anticipated means to use adze, plane, bevel-square, wood chisels etc… and many enigmas to solve.
No place for improvisation to work with this difficult material wood. A poetical universe, first in the description of the species, the places, where they grow, of dangerous trips to bring them back.
Names like Angelica from Guyana, Mahogany from Carribbean, great bassam, iroko from Africa, teak from Asia, spruce from North America, pine-tree from Oregon, Hungarian oak and our own, oak coming out of muddy banks, from Britanny’s rivers
Those that didn’t carve these marvellous species cannot understand the fascination exerted by this noble and faithful material.