What is the latest news about the Calypso (Cousteau's boat)?

[Popgun Pete]

Wood sourcing will not be the problem for "Calypso" and the original build time for these vessels was under a year, in fact the rebuild is stretching out so long that it may have been easier to start again from scratch. When they stripped the hull the “Calypso” we knew was thrown away, so they are building an externally visual replica with a different interior. Some Italian guy is supervising the redesign, but to rebuild all they had to do was follow the original plans and the modifications made by Cousteau to make it an expedition ship.

 

[Popgun Pete]

Hopefully the ship's original wheel and windows remain so that in the wheelhouse you can feel yourself transported back into the past if you ever get the chance to stand there. "Course Captain"?

 

[Erich S]

With the possible complete rebuild of Calypso, I’m happy to have a little piece of the original ship.

 

[Popgun Pete]

I imagine if you were near the shipyard when the hull was stripped down there were probably large amounts of old timber from the vessel thrown in a skip, maybe hundreds of kg of rotten wood and planking.