The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
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What Lies Beneath
While there are hundreds of beautiful words, lyrical and practical, used to describe the hull a boat, when it comes the interior there are few. Words seem to describe the atmosphere rather than the space. Those that do define space seem to have come from via the Navy rather than from the lips of the designer.