Paper short abstract:

At Han Herred Havbåde, a boatyard in northern Jutland, Denmark, young people learn the art boatbuilding and local people attempt to create a resilient community through apprenticeship in manual craftwork, which seen to be as important as the informal 'making of a fisherman' aboard fishing boats.

Paper long abstract:

Han Herred Seaboats is a community project that functions as a yard for clinker crafts and a service center for the fishermen. The fishermen use the beach as a landing place. This practice depends on the flexibility of the clinker build hulls made of oak which has been used for fishing, transportation, and trade in UK and Scandinavia since ancient times. Together with the fishermen's cooperative quota company the boatyard of the association of Han Herred Seaboats is an element of the local people's attempt to create a resilient local community. The education of young boat builders during apprenticeship and making boats by hand is just as important as the informal "making of a fisherman" onboard the fishing boats.