The book and the documentary are products of the Vessels of Brazil Project, which has been conducting careful research work for over 10 years about artisanal boat-building traditional knowledge in Brazil.

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As Bill Brown and his crew tied down his 50-foot boat, the Jamie B, he said his biggest concern was losing work days to fish tuna.

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The couple also owns an apartment in New York, where they run a money-management firm, but from Thursday to Monday morning, they're commuting to work by boat and then hopping on a train to the city.

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In 1998, while fishing the Yellowstone River, he got an idea: There must be scads of small-town printers like me, in the same boat, as it were--big debt payments on the printing press and not enough work to pay it off.

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