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i don't get it . what is the point of all of this ?

Thanks for sharing this! I look forward to visiting the build this year.

Jo "doesn't want it to finish".. Sounds like something a "trustee" would say 😏

Why are flat chisels being used , when the job calls for a gouge ?..If some volunteers can't sharpen a chisel , Why not designate someone who can ?.. Or is this another "longer it takes the better" project to gather "donations" ?

The first thing i was taught in boat building, was how to sharpen chisels properly.

Superb!

Shame about the irritating and unnecessary music

Very interesting project

I think a stick of chalk used to show how the trunk can be converted into different cuts would of been more useful

Interesting, the technique of hollowing out the keel , to get a decent fixing , is quite a performance, and it also weaken the keel , but at least it makes somewhere for the bilgewater to go . Thank you .

We visited the LongShed last Autumn - this video doesn't really show the scale of the ship! It's a really big piece of work that looks remarkably fine and delicate. I can't wait to see it on the water.

Great film, great project, great people. Thank you!

Were wood working planes ever used to work the planks? Wood working planes seem to have been around for a few thousand years before this boat was built, so it seems like the Anglo-Saxons might have known of them.

My Satterly ancestors came from Soterle in Suffolk. They were originally Normans who were probably given the Anglo Saxon estate, Soterle, which is mentioned in William's Domesday Book of 1088. The Soterle/Soterly/Satterly-lee-ley et al was probably adopted as a surname about 1100 AD. Only three families have held the "manor" since 1100 AD, I visited the estate many years ago. My favorite author is Bernard Cornwell who has told the history of England through a series of multiple trilogies of historical fiction, and can be very highly recommended.

Great to see this commitment to ensure the long term future of this fledgling forest. Will species diversity encourage oaks with straighter trunks and grain? I'm guessing that faster growing species could force the slower growing oaks upwards to keep pace with the developing canopy? Having seen the issues that the project has to overcome due to lack of suitable straight grained oak for planking does highlight the lost arts of actively managing woodlands to meet the differing requirements of so many historical timber based industries. A case in point is the growing environmental urgency to find greener sources of energy, a lesson from our past might be to resume managing the UK's vast reserves of derelict coppice.

What a fascinating project and informative video. I have a small Tweed Coble which was used for salmon fishing on the river. It is clinker built and has some lines that are very similar to Viking boats. I presume that the techniques used to build them would be influenced by early Viking boat builders as the Coble design ,with variations, is seen all the way up the North East Coast of ancient Northumbria. Good luck with the project.

I'm thinking you are going to need to build a ship every few years so the skills that are learned aren't lost.

I am surprised that you hew it in level position. In my country we hew almost always vertically. You can see how we did it when we built replica of a traditional hayloft, though you can't understand what is said, from the video should be clear how we do it: ua-cam.com/video/TE8FoOqCqQQ/v-deo.html My fingers itch to come to help you with the boat even if it is very long way to England from Slovakia.

Fantastic!

Our modern method is to cut with the grain, and across the grain only on entry and not on exit. With your work there doesn't appear to be any tear out. Is this because of the design of the axe, the skill of the axeman, both or something else?

The video is too long. This is a felling axe.....the end!

When I was a kid 60 years ago, a neighbour used the modern equivalent of a T-axe called locally in Oz, a broad axe, much heavier but still a precision tool, to square bridge girders, 12 inch by up to 24 inch and up to 40 feet long. This also produced , as a byproduct, an almost endless supply of firewood. Later in life I worked with a man who cut timber keels for workboats, one of which was 24 X 48 inches and 58 feet long, The boat built on that keel is still in service.

A thought. My maternal grandmother’s uncle and his children were boat builders in the western part of the Dalarna region of Sweden. Their models, with double-ended bows, were suited for transporting people and goods on the long rivers. Unfortunately, the knowledge of how exactly these vessels were made is lost. A few descriptions exist; however, details like how the keel, the bow, and the first planks were joined are missing. It is described as the most challenging job in the build, and it could be rediscovered by taking a boat apart. I have not gotten that far yet. The planks are joined side by side and held together with staples. It’s not a clinker construction. I believe that this is a rather old construction. From the written descriptions, we know that the frames in the dialect spoken were called “vrång” in singular and “vränger” in plural. My theory is that the English word for something incorrect wrong might be a boatbuilding term from the Viking era, and what you call frame would have been called wrong at the time of the construction of the Sutton-Ho ship. If someone is interested in learning more about Lima-Boat, let me know.

Very enjoyable to watch someone with exceptional wood working skills. How many joints have been done so far to get to this level of skill?

Fascinating. I'll be following your progress. I've built three kayaks, two strip built, so similar, the third a skin on frame. I'm not a trained boat builder, but I am a skilled carpenter and furniture maker. I was very careful following the measurements, checked everything multiple times, yet none of these boats track straight. And I can't figure out where the problem is... (One goes right, another left, the third one I don't remember.) So if it's caused by just not having shipbuilding training (which I don't think is it), this must be a common issue. Or maybe the problem doesn't scale up, so at the size of the Sutton Hoo ship this isn't an issue. What it means for me is I always have to use a bit of 'rudder' to compensate which of course is friction, slowing me down. As soon as anybody made a straighter ship back in the day, they would be fastest and everybody would want that. I wonder if it's possible to determine any issues with the dug up ships, or evidence of corrections? The Inuit and Aleuts would always tweak a new kayak after a trial run. The other result is that my first kayak (A Great Auk design from Guillemot Kayaks) which has a more round bottom (somewhat canoe shaped,) which I think is also true for the Sutton Hoo ship. The others are more narrow. The rounder bottom is more forgiving (Sort of. One of my first long trips was before I added the rudder, 35 nM mostly with my right arm... ) Something else I know from a bit of experience. A scarfed board to make two shorter ones into a long one with my preferred 12:1 ratio seems to be exactly the same as an original board that length. The scarf just seems to disappear. And I'm curious about how the Sutton Hoo ship compares with, is similar to, or different from the Viking ships of the period and later. And could modern engineering come up with a better hull design? Or did the Anglo Saxon arrive pretty much there through experience?

Its a totally fascinating project!

Very interesting indeed. Thank You.

Id love to be part of that. Do you accept voluntary workers? Some skills

This is a great explanation. Can anyone explain why the trenails and their wedges are made from dissimilar wood?

Wonderful skill but can somebody please tell me why nobody is using an adze if not for this operation then for most of the plank making?

This clip could do with some explanation about the model and what the team is hooping to learn by putting it in the quay. I am interested in following the company's progress. More information would help me and people like me to get engaged.

Long swing, short video

Wonderful to see such work being done but please can someone tell me why nobody is using an adze?

Interesting, especially having seen the promotion from the exhibition itself. But this is best viewed with the sound off.

Love it!!!

Don’t believe the vessel is anywhere near finished. Have been in contact with these guys and they are still desperately looking for timber sources. Gonna have some major problems I think. What British historians are slowly beginning to accept is that the UK’s forests and tree stocks were not truly virgin stands but had been intensely managed from early Neolithic times, through the Bronze Age and into the early medieval period for the purposes of building and ship construction. With the people planting trees to ensure available stocks of Oak etc, not just for the next few years but for generations into the future. The romantic idea of Celts and Anglo-Saxons living in simple round houses or rudimentary halls like African tribesman has been a persistent fable but is slowly giving way to the realisation that a time traveller heading back into pre- roman Britain or Anglo-Saxon England would discover a built landscape much like that of Tudor England with half timbered buildings of all shapes and sizes. The Norman conquest with it brutal suppression of the English and the restrictions on access to timber destroyed the tradition of maintaining tree stocks for the future and the last of the great trees planted by our ancestors were used up in the creation of the Royal Navy during the 1700’s. I think the Sutton Hoo Boat Project is helping historians realise just how much advance planning was required by our ancestors to ensure that timber stocks would be maintained for their descendants. There would literally have been men planting trees knowing that they would not be harvested for 200 years or more! One more thing guys, I see no adzes present? The adze is an ancient tool which has been known in the UK and throughout the world since the Stone Age. It is a much better tool for shaping wood in a multitude of ways than any axe. Do you really think our AngloSaxon ancestors, who were master wood workers would not know of or be using an adze? Come on!

Just seen somebody beating the hell out of what looked like a slick, with a mallet, if it was a slick, one of the shipwrights that were there should of given him a good bolloking, because as the shipwrights should know, you don't hit slicks, you push them.

Bloody captions again - this time with the added bonus of a greengrocer's apostrophe!

Raedweld? I used to have to put that in my Mini.

Wonderful explanation thank you!

Some beer has been consumed in the making of this ship!

Grave robbers masquerading as historians

Nice idea, but there's no way the UK authorities will let this vessel go to sea. Have you checked with the MCA?

A unique gin linked to a wonderful Anglo-Saxon ship building project

So its 31 december 2024 did they launch in 2024 like they said or not and if not then when?

Good effort by the youngsters, they should have been instructed to hold the hammer handle at its end .

Thank you for making and having the video available. Very good commentary all the way through.

The proposed river trips are great news. I can't wait to see the finished ship and watch it being put into the water.

Those sub titles….😩

Chapeau! This is breathtakingly ambitious. But you are succeeding! Congratulations. Whish I could have a little part in it. Greetings from Germany and a fat like, Chris