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"It requires long clear runs of oak from trunks 6 metres in length and up to 1.2 metres diameter for planking and other longitudinal timbers. They need to be st
by Animats 2y ago
"It requires long clear runs of oak from trunks 6 metres in length and up to 1.2 metres diameter for planking and other longitudinal timbers. They need to be straight-grained and clear of knots."
That's serious hardwood lumber. Not something you get at Home Depot.
Really, ask the French. The Notre Dame rebuilt is finished, and that involved finding big pieces of hardwood. So there are people with recent expertise at this.
But why all this effort to re-create a burial ship?
- jabl 2y ago> But why all this effort to re-create a burial ship? Burial ships are generally how we have found out details of such old ships, as otherwise they'd have rotted away, or been chopped up, at the end of their lives. Similar to Viking ships. It's not like they're trying to recreate the burial. They want to sail it and see how it works, giving us information on life back in the Saxon days.
- jimnotgym 2y agoMuch of the oak on sale in Britain is French as it happens.
- potato3732842 2y agoThe 1.2 x 6 is the diameter of the trunk, not the board. That's a pretty reasonable size. They're basically asking for the sort of "been growing here for 100yr since the sheep left and the pasture grew over" trees that every industrial nation has all over the edges of its suburban property lines.
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- macmac 2y agoThe French? For Lord Nelson's flagship? Really?
- jabl 2y agoYou're off by more than a thousand years..
- Animats 2y agoHMS Victory is getting a major overhaul at the moment, but that's a different project, and much better funded.
- jimnotgym 2y agoSeveral of Lord Nelsons other ships were built in France, of course. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Spartiate_(1798) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Spartiate_(1798) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Belleisle_(1795) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Belleisle_(1795) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tonnant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tonnant
- potato3732842 2y agoI think it's misleading to inject those into the conversation without the disclaimer that they were captured prizes. It's not like the British ordered them from France or even ordered the material.
- jimnotgym 2y agoI didn't think it was misleading. I thought it was fun to pique someones interest enough that they click the link and go on a journey of discovery. I see your comment as a spoiler!