The boatyard was located in the historic center of Venice on the site of the old airport. It consisted of a hut with roof trusses supported by ten brick pillars. Related craft activities like ship caulking likely took place nearby. Boatyards were typical sites for Venice's rowing boats, and the name is derived from the Venetian dialect word for team or workshop. Originally, boatyards constructed, maintained, and stored all sizes of boats, both rowing and sailing, but specialized in smaller private vessels after larger shipbuilding centralized in the Arsenal. Boatyards had a slope toward the water for launching boats and a covered work area known as a tense for protection from the weather. Over time, activities at boatyards

2. ACTIVITIES In the vicinity there must have been related craft activities. Indicative of a few meters from Squero 'Calle dei Calafati'(The shipwright was the worker assigned to the caulking of ships that make the shell or waterproof the bridge deck of a ship, filling cloth tarred the commissures between the plates of the hulls of wood caulking or sheets of metal hulls).

7. The activities of the boatyard decrease Over time, both for the drastic reduction in the use of rowing boats, limited use today, tourism or sport and for the advent of new construction materials such as plywood and fiberglass, are the activities of squeri greatly reduced, causing a drastic reduction of the number.