The framework

The classic picture of a wooden boat under construction is the one of a wooden skeleton, on which skin and tissues slowly grow up.
Before this, though, to cut the bones out of raw wood requires patience and accuracy.
"Mast'Antonio" Cafiero has the kind of skilled empirical accuracy that only his generation's masters commonly had.

Working with the "righella dei cardamoni", the instrument extracted from the "tracking" drawing, ribs are freed from superfluous wood that enclosed them, with shape and inclination of the boat hidden behind the drawing lines.
The smell of the mulberry wood being sawed, unfortunately, cannot be photographed, nor filmed.