[SunkenCiv]

Full title: "World's oldest sea-going boat to sail again -- Dover team rebuilds Bronze Age boat with ancient tools to understand how people crossed the Channel in time of Stonehenge".

The team will use Bronze Age tools and ship-building techniques to reconstruct the Dover Bronze Age Boat, a vessel thought to have crossed the Channel in 1500BC

The half-size replica will take two years to construct

The world's oldest sea-going boat: it will take two and a half years to reconstruct in a half-size replica

The Dover Bronze Age boat on display in a museum. Researchers aim to find out how people crossed the channel in 1550BC

The boat was located during the construction of an underpass and sparked several frantic days of rescue excavations to save it from destruction

The researchers will reconstruct the boat using ancient techniques and Bronze Age tools to understand how people crossed the channel in the time of Stonehenge

[Cronos]

it probably was a common occurence to travel the channel — the body of the “archer” found at stonehenge signified that he travelled from present-day Austria or therabouts to Stonhenge at least twice in the period c 2000 BC

[NavyCanDo]

Wish my old Senior Chief was still alive to see this. I think he was a crewman aboard the original. That was sometime after the billet he had aboard the Ark with Captain Noah.

[Amberdawn]

Cool, I love it when people rebuild these boats.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I think the headline is misleacing, although I know why they did it — to captivate the casual reader. But, they are NOT rebuilding an ancient boat. They are COPYING an ancient boat and they are doing it to half scale. Quite different, I’d say.

[Bigg Red]

Fascinating stuff.

If they are sticking with using tools consistent with the period, I can just imagine the blisters and sore muscles.