The ship appears to be built in the northern Dutch method of construction, in which the bottom planks are temporarily fastened to each other after the keel and stems are set up, out to the turn of the bilge. Then the bottom framingis inserted. Once the bottom was stable, the framing was built up to about the waterline and planked. Framing and planking alternated like this up to the planksheer, at the level of the upper deck.
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