This report emphasized the low capital investment needed to set up a boatyard,
the ready availability in most countries of the necessary materials and th high
proportion of unskilled labour which could be used for this type of construction. As
these factors correspond very closely to the basic requirements needed to set up a
boatbuilding industry in a developing country - particularly one with no tradition of
wooden boatbuilding, it was decided to carry the investigation further by building a
fishing boat which could be subjected to extensive trials in the normal fishing
operations.