Report on the Training course in small fishing boat construction. Freetown, Sierra Leone, 24 September - 14 December 1979
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This report summarizes the activities of the Training Course in Small Fishing Boat Construction, held at the Fisheries Department Boatyard, Freetown, Sierra Leone, from 24 September to 14 December 1979, with the joint support of the Fisheries Division of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Sierra Leone, and the FAO/Denmark Government Cooperative Programme. The course was attended by 21 participants from eight African countries and was directed by the Master Boatbuilder from the Fisheries Divisi on and an FAO Consultant as Co-director, assisted by two full-time FAO consultants. Technical and administrative support was provided by the Fisheries Department, Rome, with cooperation from the FAO Representatives Office, Freetown. The objective was to upgrade the skills of the participants selected from private and government boatbuilding enterprises who already possessed a considerable degree of practical experience, in order to enable them to produce improved wooden boats of various types , and to disseminate their experience and skills amongst their immediate colleagues in their home countries. It was concluded from the participants’ continued interest and positive feedback that the course not only met its immediate objectives, but also indicated the need for further distinct courses, for both the artisanal level and a somewhat higher level. Emphasis during the course was placed on practical aspects of boatbuilding but during construction, related theory lessons were also orga nized each week. Three vessels were constructed during the course: one 9.07 m. flat-bottomed beach landing craft of planked lapstrake construction, one 8.7 m. V-bottom boat of seam batten planked construction and one 10.26 m. V-bottom trawler/seiner. The latter vessel, being larger than could be completely finished in the time span of the course, was intended to be outfitted by the Fisheries Division which would then employ it for their exploratory fishing programme and would use it as a m odel for further local constructions in the boatyard.