Traditional Shipbuilding on the Island of Samos, Greece: Recording the Tangible and Intangible Data

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Figure 1. Wooden boats at Kokkari, Samos. Taken by Konstantinos Chrysochoos. Copyright: Digital Collections of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA); CC BY 4.0, shared under the Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0.

Figure 2. Traditional boat cut in half in Nea Potidaia, Greece, in 2000. Copyright: Kostas Damianidis, reproduced with permission.

Figure 3. The kaiki Manolis being destroyed by a bulldozer in Koilada, Greece, in 2018. Copyright: Georgia Papadimitriou, reproduced with permission.

Figure 4. Map of Samos and location within the Aegean Sea in Greece. (Author)

Figure 5. Forests land cover of Samos. Map created with data available from the European Forest Institute. (Author)

Figure 6. Shipyard in Samos, 1936. Copyright: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Doreen Canaday Spitzer Photographic Collection, reproduced with permission of Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (Doreen Canaday Spitzer Director of Archives at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens).

Figure 7. The cove of Agios Isidoros in September 2022. (Author)

Figure 8. Map of Samos with the locations of the active shipyards and the old/not active shipyards. (Author)

Figure 9. Shipbuilding taking place in the open air at the shipyard of Agios Isidoros. (Author)

Figure 10. Enclosed workshop of the shipyard at Drakaioi. (Author)

Figure 11. Tools for timber processing in the roofed enclosed workshop of the shipyard at Agios Isidoros. (Author)

Figure 12. Shipbuilding taking place in the roofed workshop of the shipyard at Pyrgos. (Author)

Figure 13. Felled pine trees after bark peeling process in the shipyard of Pyrgos. (Author)

Figure 14. Trechantiri awaiting completion at the shipyard of Pyrgos. (Author)

Figure 15. Boats hauled out of the sea with temporary wooden slipways at Agios Isidoros. (Author)

Figure 16. Abandoned bandshaw at an old shipyard site at Ormos Marathokampou in 2022. (Author)

Figure 17. Murals commemorating shipbuilding at Ormos Marathokampou. (Author)

Figure 18. Felled pine trees awaiting processing on the side of the road at the shipyard of Pyrgos. (Author)

Figure 19. Weathering of planks at the shipyard of Agios Isidoros. (Author)

Figure 20. Small lofting line plan known as ‘sala’ (σάλα in Greek) at the shipyard of Pyrgos. (Author)

Figure 21. Unfinished boat due to financial difficulties of the commissioner at the shipyard of Agios Isidoros. (Author)

Figure 22. The wooden vakarlas, Elpis, built in the traditional style but with solar panels. Afloat at the shipyard of Patmos Marine, Patmos, in 2022. (Author)

Figure 23. A group of friends in a wooden boat, somewhere off Skyros, in 1940. Copyright: Digital Collections of the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA); CC BY 4.0, shared under the Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0.