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To preserve the waterlogged boat, it was soaked in liquid sugar and then dried out under controlled conditions.At 10 metres long, the Poole logboat is the largest logboat ever found in Southern Britain, and the only one to have been found in a harbour.
Half of the boat was found by men dredging the harbour in 1964. Miraculously, a month later divers were able to retieve the other half of the boat.

From the moment the logboat was removed from the sea its structure was under threat, as the water had helped to preserve the boat. It was kept in a water tank, and in the mid 1990s the decision was made to preserve the boat using sugar.

The idea of creating a boat from a single log is at least 7000 years old. While the use of logboats died out in the UK in medieval times, they are still being made in places such as the Pacific Islands and parts of Africa. Yet while the idea of a logboat has spread across the world, it's unlikely that the boat itself has ever left the shallow waters of the harbour, as it is likely to have capsized in deeper waters.

To preserve the waterlogged boat, it was soaked in liquid sugar and then dried out under controlled conditions.