Savar Shipyard

Last Friday I went out to Savar, about a 30 minute bus ride from Dhaka, to visit two French friends who work at a boat yard on various floating solutions for Bangladesh. Some of the innovative projects currently going on in Savar include refurbishing a floating hospital to reach remote island chars, building fiber glass fishing and transport boats, and preserving traditional Bengali wooden boat designs and craftsmanship (Friendship). I had the pleasure of going out to the yard to hang out with friends, explore the floating hospital, climb aboard some of the large wooden tourist boats and sail around the Vagolpur river.

Floating hospital undergoing renovations (background) and a
fiberglass transport boat (foreground).

Sailing the newest wooden sailboat.