Kurucaşile & Kapısuyu

How is a boat born? First a tree is chosen; a dry, sound tree that has waited patiently… Then the keel is laid on the slipway, the ribs are set in place one by one, and months of labor move forward to the sounds of adze, plane and hammer. In Kurucaşile, the echo of these sounds along the shore is the whisper of a craft handed down from generation to generation…