 Seams between planks were filled with reed bundles, reeds also covered the floor of each Abydos boat.Without internal framing, some of these boats became twisted, as was unavoidable without an internal skeleton for support when out of the water.The wood of the Abydos boats was local Tamarix - tamarisk, salt cedar - not cedar from Lebanon which was used for Khufu’s Solar Barque and favored for shipbuilding in Egypt in later dynasties.