Adela steel rebuild was highly controversial 20 yrs ago, Today she's the yacht that kick-started spirit of tradition.

centerline rudders attached to the sternpost, and masts that were not positioned along the ship's longitudinal centerline. Often the interpretation based upon such observations was that Chinese ...

Plans to launch a replica of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship found at Sutton Hoo have been put back a year. The 88ft (27m) reconstruction of the ship, excavated in 1939 near the Suffolk coast, is ...

Darren Rozier/BBC The ship's "backbone" - including the keel, stem and sternpost - has been built and its carpenters have been attaching planks with rivets "I've always said this is one big ...

Currently, the team behind the £1.5m scheme have built the "backbone" of the ship - including the keel, stem and sternpost - and now they have started attaching planks with rivets. Master ...

She said it was shaped to look like a taurapa (canoe sternpost), which looked like a sharkfin, on a waka and represented travel across the sea. “The attachment is huge for us with whakapapa here.” ...

Derived from Viking longships, they are smaller and have a rudder hung from a straight sternpost which repaces the long and heavy Viking steering oars. Mr Macdonald said: “Using the new galley ...