1,000 Year Old Viking Ship to Sail Again.

1. Vexorg
   June 25th, 2007 at 2:06 am

   Anyone else have to pull up The Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin while reading that?

2. Sid Morrison
   June 25th, 2007 at 7:52 am

   It's a cool story, but to say a 1,000 year old ship is going to "sail again" is a huge stretch. According to the article, 45 years ago, they pulled up only 1/4 of just the basic hull. Something tells me only a very small fraction of that 1/4 hull is now in this "restored" boat. They don't mention it in the article, but I'm betting it is 99 44/100% new boat (built to the prior specs, as well as they could reckon from the small part they started with). There's probably a non-structural hunk of original wood sealed in epoxy and screwed to the rail so they can call it "partly original"

   Straight talk from Sid.

3. Thomas
   June 25th, 2007 at 8:32 am

   Powered by a few oars, too, from the looks of it.

4. Anita
   June 25th, 2007 at 9:46 am

   According to the site, the oars are only used when absolutely necessary in ports or other close quarters, to ensure the ship doesn't run into other boats.

5. Alex
   June 25th, 2007 at 2:41 pm

   Vexorg, this is one version of The Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin that you should check out: Viking Kitten.

6. Stratoblogster
   June 26th, 2007 at 12:17 am

   Did they find the viking turd (from another recent post)in this boat during the restoration??

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