Building a Cossack boat

The year is 2002. The story recounts the construction of the Cossack boat “Bohun,” which is based on Cossack-era keel designs, fragments of ships found in the waters around Khortytsia Island, and Boplan’s descriptions, since no Cossack blueprints have survived; the article details the construction and materials used.

In the video: the construction of a Cossack boat; the painting of a Cossack vessel; the launch of the chaika “Bogun”; sailors.

Comment: Serhiy Voronov, project coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Historical Research at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.