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The Jesus Boat project is a consortium of non profit organizations and educational institutions who intend to make a working replica of this 1st century small boat from the Sea of Galilee. The vessel will tour and be available for charter, featuring realistic first century sails, and sermons given from the water’s edge. Please refer to The Sea of Galilee Boat by Shelley Wachsmann. and related videos broadcast on the History Channel.

Model Building in Nautical Archaeology: The Kinneret Boat
Claire Peachey
The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 53, No. 1, An Underwater View of the Ancient World (Mar., 1990), pp. 46-53

Abstract
More than 8,000 miles from where the Kinneret boat was discovered in the Sea of Galilee in 1986, researchers at Texas A & M University are building a one-tenth scale replica of the boat. Researchers use models so that they can see the boat in three dimensions and possibly be confronted with some of the actual problems the original builders faced when constructing the boat.
Ship Shape


USD students are using modern technology to research seamanship at the time of Christ

A boat dating from the first century, A.D., is being reconstructed in a Serra Hall lab, thanks to computer technology and the painstaking efforts of two undergraduate students.

Senior Chris England and sophomore Tyler Deyling, using data compiled by anthropology professor Jerome Hall and a computer- assisted drawing program, are making a model of the so-called Kinneret Boat, salvaged from the Sea of Galilee in the 1980s.

Hall visited the wreckage at an Israeli museum and traced the salvaged pieces. With his drawings, England and Deyling meticulously reconstructed the boat in a CAD program, making each of hundreds of planks accurate to within 2 millimeters. Since a significant portion of the boat was lost to the centuries, the students delved into nautical archaeology and made educated estimates to complete the model.

Their findings will be published in a Society for Historical Archaeol-ogists journal this year, but Deyling says learning about nautical technology is only one reason he's passionate about the project.

"It's exciting to be working on a boat that dates back to the time of Christ and was excavated from the Sea of Galilee," he says. "There is no evidence (Jesus) was in it, but you never know. It's like becoming a part of history."

http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/040196-1.html
 
http://www.sandiego.edu/publications/usdmagazine/summer2004/faculty2.shtml
 
 
1993
 “Building a Model of the Kinneret Boat,” by William H. Charlton, Jr. 
              In Seaways Ships in Scale, Vol. IV,
              Jan-Feb 1993, pp. 8-13.