Repairs in British and Irish archeological logboats have been recorded and described by several authors, and the wide variety of repair methods present has been noted, but otherwise, repairs have received little analytical attention. This may be a result of three factors: (1) failure to recognize the significance of repair as social action; (2) the absence of a convenient source that consolidates repair data from all countries of the Atlantic Archipelago; and (3) the inadequacy of existing typologies of logboat repairs. Because they fail to recognize the distinctiveness of certain types of repairs and to organize repair methods into logical categories consistent with the data, existing typologies are of little help in comparing archeological examples or in analyzing repair methods for spatial or temporal distributions. This paper argues that logboat repairs can be socially significant; tabulates all known repairs in British and Irish logboats; describes the situations or events that make repairs necessary; and proposes a typology of repair based on general mechanical or engineering responses to logboat damage. It also presents findings of spatial and temporal distributions of some aspects of repairs.

几位作者已经记录和描述了英国和爱尔兰考古木船的修理，并注意到了目前存在的各种各样的修理方法，但是除此之外，修理很少受到分析的关注。这可能是由于以下三个因素造成的：（1）无法认识到修复作为社会行为的重要性；（2）缺乏方便的来源来合并来自大西洋群岛所有国家的维修数据；（3）现有的原木修理类型不足。因为它们无法识别某些类型的维修的独特性，并且无法将维修方法组织为与数据一致的逻辑类别，所以现有的类型对于比较考古实例或分析维修方法的空间或时间分布几乎没有帮助。本文认为，对木船的维修具有重要的社会意义。列出英国和爱尔兰的原木船的所有已知修理；描述需要维修的情况或事件；并根据对木船损坏的一般机械或工程响应，提出了维修的类型。它还提供了维修某些方面的时空分布发现。