"Sometime around mid-August, the ship's carpenter, Richard Frobisher--described by Strachey as "a painful and well-experienced shipwright and skillful workman"--set about making the ship's boat ready for a sea voyage.22 Using hatches salvaged from the wreck, he built a deck and made the longboat "so close that no water could go in her."23 He fitted the little vessel with sails and checked its caulking and made the boat--probably about twenty-four feet in length and unballasted--as ready as he could for a voyage across almost six hundred miles of dangerous, open ocean."