Winter is the ideal season when wood shavings fly, drills and sanders sing and Vineyard boat builders assemble and repair boats.

At one of the Island’s smallest boat shops, Rick Brown of Far Cry Boats in Vineyard Haven is working on two. Space is a premium inside his 15 by 36-foot workshop with limited heat. His fragrant shop is at Maciel Marine, next door to John Thayer’s cabinet shop, and has one of the best views of Lagoon Pond. The air smells of fresh-cut oak.

Little Lady, a historic vessel that has fished out of Menemsha for decades, has left its harbor. On Thursday morning, the boat — the last one-man, wooden western-rig dragger in New England — journeyed to Vineyard Haven, where it will undergo restoration.