Wood was for hundreds of years the traditional boat building material and a well-built wooden craft is still a joy to look at. (Right) The hull of a 37ft din Rather, built of cold moulded wood, starts to take shape. The backbone structure of stemhead, stempost, stem apron, fore deadwood, keel (with hog above it), after deadwood, stern knee and stern post, has been bolted together and temporary transverse moulds set up round which the longitudinal members—stringers, deck shelf and gunwale—will be curved, ready for planking..