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In todays episode the crew wraps up the majority of the demolition, James talks about North Star's history and her role in the cold war and the US nuclear defence warning system. Quill shapes the first frames and fits it to the bow, and the stern gets lifted off for pattern making and rebuild.

In this episode the Favourite Boatworks crew continues the work of stripping down the rotten wood and what's left of the aft interior, James gives us a lecture on corrosion and electrolysis based wood deterioration, later the crew struggles removing the propeller.

In todays episode the crew dives deep into the demolition work and explores how extensive the damages actually are, and how much work we have ahead. James gives us a course on wood rot and its preventions, and Gary finds a cannonball behind the stove.

In this episode the crew gets to work stripping the miles of tarry copper that sheets the hull of the North Star, revealing the original layer of ice protecting ironbark hiding underneath.

In this episode the crew gets to work setting up the new workshop for North Star and proceeds with lifting of the rotten pilothouse from the deck of the boat.

North Stars interior gets emptied and the deconstruction begins, what will the crew find once the paint gets lifted?

The North Star made it safely to Shelter Island and she made it up on the hard, now it's up to the crew to start taking her apart.

Follow along as we go trough the history of the North Star of Herschel Island, when she was built, where she sailed and how she ended up at Favourite Boatworks.

The North Star of Herschel Island is the last surviving arctic fur trading ship, a living relic of Canadian maritime history and one of few still floating sailing ships of her age. Purpose built in 1935 for two inuit fur trappers to sail the high arctic, she's got a rich history from asserting Canadian sovereignty during the cold war to searching for mermaids in the Aleutian islands.