Woods and dreams

Why dreams are not fulfilled?
For the very same reason that "makes the world go round"! At the beginning of every plan, specially construction plans, one must check his balance... against reality.
To build a boat is expensive. It already was at granpa's times, and it is even more nowadays. The wood to "make" out the "gozzo" must be good: mulberry and elm for framework, holm oak for the keel, pine for planking, mast and yard of the lateen. Some of these woods are difficult to find, others have become of too poor quality for naval construction purposes. All of them are expensive.
And I started to grasp why "it's not possible anymore to build boats like in good old times"... If wood is expensive, craftmanship is not cheaper, specially the specialize one. And more, many information are needed, hard to find, and harder to understand, and even harder to be put into practice.
For the construction of "S. Maria del Lauro" some sponsor have proposed to participate. But she was my father's grandfather's boat, and dad still remember her, built in this very same cave, on this very same beach... And I am the one who wants to see if it is possible to do it! To accept contribution to the construction means to renounce part of the responsibilities, and part of ownership.
Craftmanship is us, wood can be found, with time and money. Some good wood has been stored by my father for a long time: mulberry, elm, holm oak, and pitchpine for mast and yard. Unfortunately today's pinetrees are too infested with parasites and illnesses, so the planking will have to be in mahogany, but the oars will be made of beech, as they have to. We'll make the boat with our own means, if she can be done, then, maybe, we'll look for sponsors!