Traditional shipbuilding skills still survive

Do shipwrights today still have the skills to build a sailing-ship replica?

Yes; traditional wooden-boat and shipbuilding skills survive at working heritage yards, though no full reproduction of a major ship of the line has yet followed.

The answer is an unqualified yes: large wooden sailing replicas remain within modern craft capability. Heritage shipbuilding activity around Portsmouth and Chatham preserves places where traditional wooden construction can still be seen. That surviving capability is distinct from the much larger financial and organizational challenge of reproducing a major ship of the line, which has not yet been done. The exchange connects preserved skills and dockyard institutions to the practical interpretation of sailing navies.