Born-again Beauty

It is no easy task to build a vessel similar to an ancient boat.

August 26, 2003

TURNING a fantasy into a reality is not as easy as tossing an idea around. That was what happened to Philip Beale. For 10 years his dream of building a replica of the Borobudur boat had to remain tightly sealed. He knew it was not easynot only because it needed a lot of funding, but a lot of research as well. Only after the 42-year-old ex-British marine met Nick Burningham, a 49-year-old British expert in designing traditional ships, his dream co

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