{"id":78064,"date":"2021-01-14T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=78064"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:35:44","slug":"man-builds-a-full-size-replica-of-noahs-ark-costing-him-more-than-1-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/man-builds-a-full-size-replica-of-noahs-ark-costing-him-more-than-1-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Builds A Full-Size Replica Of Noah\u2019s Ark, Costing Him More Than $1.6 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over 30-years-ago, Johan Huibers was inspired to build a full replica of Noah’s Ark — and he actually did it.<\/p>\n

The Dutchman had been reading \u201cNoah\u2019s Ark\u201d to his children as a bedtime story when he suddenly got the idea to create his very own. After telling his wife about his idea, she was not quite on board with his plan. Instead, she made a joke that their family would \u201cgo on a vacation to the moon\u201d if he went through and finished it. Despite her joking, Huibers went ahead with his plan, and according to\u00a0Bored Panda<\/a>, his first version of the ark was built back in 2006.<\/p>\n

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As\u00a0Euro News<\/a>\u00a0reported, part of the reason that Huibers thought so long and hard about building the ark is because of a nightmare he had about major floods happening in the Netherlands. According to Huibers, when he was 24-years-old, he started dreaming of these floods. That is when he chose to get on with a plan for building an ark of his own. He started with the building schematics according to what is found in the Old Testament. But his first version was \u201conly half the size of the one in the Bible,\u201d so he decided to go back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n

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In 2008, Huibers\u2019 project gained the support of several amateur carpenters who wanted to help him build a life-sized replica of Noah\u2019s Ark using the instructions laid out in the Bible. The project had quite a hefty price tag as it cost more than $1.6 million to build. When it was finished in 2012, they opened it up to the public.<\/p>\n

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Huibers did state at the time, \u201cWe\u2019re not professional boat makers. A lot of stuff here is a bit crooked<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ship is quite detailed. It was built using a steel frame as well as both American cedar and pine wood. The ark is roughly the size of a five-story building, as it\u2019s 75-feet tall. It is 95-feet wide, 410- feet long. It weighs a massive 2,500 tons. The ark can also hold more than 5,000 people at once \u2013 much roomier than just two-by-two.<\/p>\n

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The ark proved to be quite a popular tourist attraction in Dordrecht, Netherlands. But it was later shut down due to differences between Huibers and town officials. Then, Huibers had plans to sail the ark to Brazil in time for the Rio Olympics in 2016, but those plans never happened because of safety concerns. Not sure what to do with his ark, Huibers got the idea to head to Israel as it \u201cmakes sense to take it to God\u2019s land.\u201d However, wildfires in Israel meant that his other plan did not come to fruition yet again.<\/p>\n

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Even so, Huibers has not given up his hope to make it to Israel with his ark. Because the ark has no motor, he will require tugboats in order to get it to its destination, meaning that he\u2019s looking at a $1.3 million trip. He is now asking for donations to help make the trip happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over 30-years-ago, Johan Huibers was inspired to build a full replica of Noah’s Ark — and he actually did it. The Dutchman had been reading \u201cNoah\u2019s Ark\u201d to his children as a bedtime story when he suddenly got the idea to create his very own. After telling his wife about his idea, she was not quite on board with his plan. Instead, she made a joke that their family would \u201cgo on a vacation to the moon\u201d if he went through and finished it. Despite her joking, Huibers went ahead with his plan, and according to\u00a0Bored Panda, his first version <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":78067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[9146,14873,11515,9745,21628,14649,22844,12972,9849,30592,10475,9457,11603],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78064"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=78064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}