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    KEEPING CRAFTSMANSHIP AFLOAT

    Feb 21, 2020 4 minutes
    By Tom Rodwell
    Photographs: Tom Rodwell and
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    Visit any city waterfront and you’d be forgiven for assuming that boatbuilding is the high-priced preserve of the playboy. A visit to an anonymous warehouse in the backwater Auckland suburb of Te Atatu Peninsula tells a different story.

    Restoration projects and practical workshops intermingle here with anecdotes and the Pythagorean theorem, and there’s always an undertow of big stories that swell from small details. At the New Zealand Traditional Boat Building School (NZTBS) you get very much a sense of a living history adapting to modernity with all the ingenuity of the skill’s forefathers.

    One tutor recalls his Dickensian days as an

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