Logboat

  • The problem with leaving a logboat out of the water for long is that it dries out and may check or split as a result of the wood shrinking unevenly. Malcolm F. Fry suggests a possible solution to long term storage when he states “One may even suppose that some smaller logboats could have been…

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  • Building an Irish Logboat

    Building an Irish Logboat

    Goals The goal of this project was to create a functional logboat appropriate to early medieval Ireland using period materials and tools (or functionally equivalent substitutes when necessary) and following a sequence of operations suggested by period examples. Type & Shape This logboat is a “simple logboat” which means it has been made of a…

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