The treenailed boat is a boat model used in Northern

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, usually associated with

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but should perhaps be ascribed to

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n groups. The shape and construction coincides with the

sewn boat A sewn boat is a type of wooden boat which has its planks sewn, stitched, tied, or bound together with natural fibre rope (e.g. coir in the Indian Ocean) tendons or flexible wood, such as roots and willow branches. Sewn boat construction techniq ...

s, but instead of ropes, it is assembled with wooden

treenail A treenail, also trenail, trennel, or trunnel, is a wooden peg, pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together, especially in timber frames, covered bridges, wooden shipbuilding and boat building. It is driven into a hole bored through tw ...

References

*Mike McCarthy. (September 14, 2005) ''Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship''

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