Wooden clinker built sailing boats.

This place is Wivenhoe, there was until about 20yrs ago a shipyard building such vessels here but now it has been gentrified and all the old ship building yards away to the left of this photograph are modern apartments for those that can afford them. Gone too are all the fishing boats that have been harvesting oysters here since before Romans times. Ironically the gentrification changes what the people came for originally.

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And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html