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Over the winter, students from Anchor Academy, a special education therapeutic day school in Middleborough, built a boat.
The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...
The Warren Historical Society will host a presentation, Building the Wood-Canvas Canoe, by Bruce Larson, on Tuesday, July 1, at 7 p.m., at the Society's Dr. Campbell house, located at 225 Main Street ...
The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...
Composite construction is a form of boat building favored at the yard because, Haley says, “nobody wants wood anything ...
The wood was muddy, but well preserved after centuries in the oxygen-poor earth. A previously constructed slurry wall went right through the boat, though timbers comprising about 30 feet (9 meters ...
Archaeologists Recreate Prehistoric Tools to Build a Canoe for 140-Mile Ocean Voyage Researchers and expert seafarers teamed up to re-create an ocean journey from more than 30,000 years ago ...
A Revolutionary War-era boat is being reconstructed more than two centuries after being buried deep beneath Manhattan's expanding shoreline.
Researchers in NYC work to restore a boat that was used to protect Philly in the Revolutionary War after being uncovered at the World Trade Center.
Curved timbers from the hull were discovered by a crew working on an underground parking facility at the World Trade Center site, near where the Twin Towers stood before the 9/11 attacks. The wood ...
The wood is knotty, and timbers were fastened with iron spikes. That allowed for faster construction, though the metal corrodes over time in seawater. Researchers now hypothesize the boat was built in ...