Designed and built by Franky as the Straw Hats' second ship after the destruction of the Going Merry in One Piece, the Thousand Sunny is his magnum opus as a shipwright, whose size and features dwarf their earlier vessel on every front. Designed in the style of a brigantine, the two-masted ship was crafted using Adam Wood, the same type of material used to make the Oro Jackson, which was the ship of the former Pirate King Gol D. Roger. Much like its predecessor, the Going Merry, the Thousand Sunny — or the "Sunny" as it is affectionately referred to by the crew — features an animal as its figurehead. In this case, the ship's frontage is decorated by a lion with a stylized mane resembling the sun, although the exaggerated proportions of the mane itself were mistaken for both a sunflower and the sun itself at the time of construction, much to Franky's chagrin.