Hugo gets behind the wheel (and guns) of MGB 81, a restored WWII gunboat that was revered as the Spitfire of the seas... Watch more videos like this on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/motorboatyachting | Motor Boat & Yachting

Come See History in the Making! 🔨📖 Inside the New York State Museum, an extraordinary reconstruction is underway — a centuries-old wooden gunboat is coming back to life! Discovered in 2010 during excavations at the World Trade Center site, this 18th-century vessel was entombed in the landfill that once expanded Manhattan’s shoreline. Now, it’s being carefully rebuilt by NYSM experts and a team from Texas A&M’s Archaeological Watercraft and Aircraft Conservation program (@tamu) — and you’re inv