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They will better reconnect with their medieval history by having and keeping beautiful majestic living oak trees, as many as possible and as widespread in the country as possible.

Their boat project is in no hurry. Why can't it wait the natural pace of the "donations", slow as it may be?

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The volunteers probably do want to live to see it done. The inhabitants of Woodbridge do not skew young, and the few pictures I was immediately able to find of the project suggest that the volunteers in fact skew old.

They could take it as a unique chance to experience/reenact a multi-generational project as it was common in the Middle Ages with the building of cathedrals or castles.

Different times have different constraints, and so what constitues a multi-generational project varies.

> To replace the trees that we are using, we planted 400 oak saplings

https://saxonship.org/timber-requirements-for-the-reconstruc...

I agree- I'm not sure how many readers realise how old old oak trees are. Britain is home to ancient oak trees that are seceral hundreds of years old, and connected in amazing ways to the ecosystem. Obviously nobody is suggested using ancient oak trees, but it gives some idea of the life span of an oak tree.

A sutton hoo recreation would be amazing, but I'm not sure it justifies use of veteran stock over newer oak trees.

A neighbor of mine here in the US cut down a nearly 300 year old white oak that was in his yard to make room for a kitchen addition. I saved a small piece of a branch that I turned into a bowl, but the rest of it was cut up for firewood.

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