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Boat builder Henry Vokey of Trinity, Newfoundland, Canada has built all kinds of wooden vessels from dories to schooners. In this one hour documentary we follow Henry as he builds a 54 foot, two masted schooner in his backyard. . From the laying of the keel to its launch 3 years later it closes a chapter on a part of Newfoundland's boat building history which saw hundreds of schooners being built in most of the many isolated bays and coves and eventually being used to fish and deliver its salt fish cargoes to customers in England, France, Spain, Portugal and South America.