The Shipyard as Mundane Workshop

While the magus improves his laboratory to enhance its magical qualities, the craftsman improves the mundane aspects of his workshop to improve the quality of his craftsmanship. But a Hermetic shipwright is concerned not only about enchantment, but also about the quality of the vessels his shipyard produces. Ideally, the magus will want to improve both aspects of his shipyard.

As the magus accounts for his time

differently to a mundane craftsman, in seasons of activity rather than Labor Points, it is most convenient to have a mundane shipwright work with the magus. This mundane shipwright can be treated as a specialist supported by the magus or his covenant. The mundane shipwright earns Labor Points as described in City & Guild, and the excess, beyond those required to sustain him, can be put to improving the workshop or shipyard in this case.