Professional boat builders at work on the wooden hull of a boat in a shed in the state of Trengganu, on the east coast of Malaya. The photographer is inside the hull looking forward from near the stern showing the frames in position. Many of the frames are numbered and the strake positions are lettered. One man is working on the keel using a chisel which he is hitting with the side of an axe. The other man is using an adze at frame 8. The wooden boatshed has a close woven palm frond roof.