Luv the craftsmanship of these old boats! Every piece is cut, chiseled/filed and sanded to fit. My Chris is 1946..but still can't believe the craftsmanship! Keep us posted!

Wood- a very good question MC, his search for good wood is a big part of his projects. 

This is a picture of 2 pieces of local pine he glued together to show the difference in the growth rings from a piece from 2013 and from 1740, the 2013 piece has about 6 years of growth, hard to count them on the old piece. The 1740 pine came from an old barn that was used as a stagecoach barn back when the road to Halifax went through here. The density of the old piece and the new piece is obvious- the new pine rots very quickly in a marine environment. 

The climate change is obvious when you see the growth rings?

The difference in the grain is wild.  Perhaps he could find some old growth trees that had been downed by the hurricanes?

Another thing I was wondering about is where the wood for the boat originally came from.  It was built in England, but England doesn't strike me as a place where there would be a lot of forests left, even in 1919, to harvest wood from.  The mahogany would have had to come from somewhere closer to the equator, but even the rest of the wood probably didn't come from England. 

It's wild when you think of the larger wooden pieces would likely be much harder to find nowadays (more specifically for larger wooden ships), given that those super tall, large around old growth trees are not so easy to find anymore.  Just finding a mast for a large sailing ship must be a chore now (and super expensive).  That Home Depot board looks like it would have been harvested from a smallish tree (though it's just a representation on their website).

Interesting project for sure.  I'm glad that there are still people carrying on the craftsmanship from days past, that otherwise would just be forgotten.

As a side note, I recall when they were rebuilding St. John's Anglican in Lunenburg after the fire, they had to find people with the woodworking skills to be able to authentically recreate the woodwork that had been lost in the fire.  That church would have been built by people with shipbuilding skills, so apparently it was quite a challenge to find people who had the appropriate skillsets.  In the end, they did a fantastic job, and faithfully rebuilt the church such that it would be hard to tell it from the original.