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Los trabajos dieron comienzo enseguida; mientras un grupo de marineros levantaba la compuerta, cientos de carpinteros ponían manos a la obra para construir la grada, una guía hecha de dos vigas paralelas de madera de pino que, partiendo de la orilla de la laguna, atravesaba el promontorio hasta descender a mar abierta del otro lado.
The project was begun immediately: as a group of sailors raised the screen, hundreds of carpenters set to work building the slip, two parallel guides made of pinewood beams, which crossed over the promontory from the shore of the lagoon to the open sea on the other side.
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