Squero Padovano

In Venice squero is the boatyard for the building, maintenance and shelter for traditional boats such as the sandolo, mascareta, puparin, and, of course, the most popular gondola. Even in Padua, city of waters, as in Venice, there were once squeri overlooking the waterways.
Within the walls of the ancient city, in a hidden place to rediscover, we have improvised our squero. Here we're trying to share a story that has been lost over fifty years ago.

S-CIOPON

The s-ciopon is a kind of sandolo originally designed for hunting in the lagoon. 
The boat that we have restored was badly damaged especially at the prow and stern, the upper edge of the sercio was worn and rotten in many points and the falca was completely destroyed.
It took us more than 300 hours of work from July to November 2014 to put the boat back.





Stern of the boat before restoration

Prow of the boat

Working of the brasiòi


Reconstruction of the forward part of the sercio


The new prow




Reconstruction of the transom (specio)



Fixing the beams of the bow


Mounting supports for the foredeck



Dunnages (paglioli)


Cutting the fabric for the resin


Resin coating


Positioning of the falca

Bow with the iron

Iron stern cut and applied



After the painting of the outside of the hull


Omar helps us to paint the inside of the hull




December 9, 2014: Gianni is finally happy to have carried out this feat:












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