The workers also used an intricate network of rope lashings inside the hull to stitch the planks together. By 2500 B.C., the Egyptians were using chisels, axes, mallets, saws, gravers, and adzes. Their boats were superb displays of craftsmanship and finesse, created with such a delicate balance of technology and parts that they could be executed without any internal framing. Boat building in Mesopotamia and India resembled that in Egypt, apparently because of their shared waters in the Persian Gulf and the contact in the Red Sea. Gribbins speculates the similarity between these wooden boats occurred primarily because they were asked to do the same thing, regardless of where they did it.
Wooden boats slice through the water.
They are pointed in front for weight-bearing stability, and float through a design that creates fullness in the middle.