What is "boatbuilding"

Usage examples of "boatbuilding".

There was also an industrialist in Norfolk, Virginia, named John Hughes Curtis, head of a boatbuilding company.

Japanese boatbuilding firms sat along the artificial harbor with its fleet of marine-blue sampans, blending with the water they bobbed in.

The caravan made an ideal cache for weapons and explosives, too, in the compartments under the floor that Denny, with his boatbuilding skills, had built.

What I was enjoying here was the fruit of years of thinking and planning by Mark, a fine boatbuilding job by Finbar and his yard, unlimited supplies of money from Derek Thrasher, and finally, and very satisfying it was, weeks of rather good work by none other than myself.

Elai watched this business of boatbuilding from the crest of First Tower with a certain forlorn distress.

Some manner of person had husbanded these woods, cutting down trees for firewood and boatbuilding in many spots but fostering quick-growing ash and sparing half the slow-growing oaks in others.

Leaving Mahui to look after the others, I crept through the underbrush until I found a hideaway close to the boatbuilding area.

The staple industry is boatbuilding, and there is an active coasting trade in fish, wine, wood and coal.