Thread: Clinker built Knarr / Drakkar (Viking Ship)

My mate Hagar builds one every winter and burns it at the end of Summer each year.


Can't imagine why there'd be a lot of them around, due to a shortage of trained Vikings to crew them, but do a search of the archives at http://www.woodenboat.com/ they have done a few detailed articles and will point you to where, (in Norway) you are likely to find plans.

Cheers,

P

The U.K. National Maritime Museum Monographs #1 & #3 IIRC have the 'Gravesend boat' and the Faering (4 oars, 2 rowers + steersman = 7.5 knots!)from the Gokstad ship respectively. Plank by plank even. Macquarrie Uni library has them - try Interlibrary Loan.

There is a re-enactor-ish site that has (pay) plans for a very small Viking boat: http://www.algonet.se/~gwarner/times.htm

Ah, your friend Hagar is an uncle of mine Who says there arent any trained vikings around?

Speaking of burning the bloody things, I was in Shetland recently and saw a festival called Up-Helly-Aa. Burn a replica Drakkar every year.

Whilst over that way we stopped in at Oslo and saw the Oseberg and other boats too in a museum of course. Amazing.

The Laplander canoo is rather small (http://www.algonet.se/~gwarner/times.htm) but there is links to bigger boats if anyone else is interested

Cheers for the direction too by the way.

J!

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

My mate Hagar builds one every winter and burns it at the end of Summer each year.

and who does he burn with the boat? :eek:
Hmm, finishing Redback and burning the ex in him. Not such a bad idea when I think of it.

Richard

Richard
Dont waste all that work just use the offcuts and the sawdust and diesal to get it going
Seems much more sensible than wasting a good boat or has construction gone that bad :confused:

Gidday Woodlice

Mate Ive not been made aware of anyone here in Aussie building a Viking replica...

However!

That said there have been several built in recent and not so recent times overseas... and I know of one that sailed to American for the World Fair in about 1880 or so perhaps 1890ish

There are several sources of Viking type boats available... depending on your definition of course... If we go strictly for Viking type you are looking at SERIOUSLY large vessels no mean feat to build mate and you do realize that they required up to 80 rowers???

So okay here is the main one built in recent times... the oseburg ship

http://www.khm.uio.no/utstillinger/oseberg/indexE.html

This one goes to great lengths to explain how the boats were built

http://home.online.no/~joeolavl/viki...ipbuilding.htm

You can buy plans and models from here...

http://vikingships.tripod.com/

This is an interesting Viking site well worth spending some time in or even contacting them...

http://www.sjolander.com/viking/

I was going to link you to a couple of sites with plans available to purchase but they seem to have gone offline...

Here is a link to Flatduck where you can get Iain Ougtreds Elf design... he has also done one a tad larger called Elfen but I dont think Flat ducks have that yet... oops yes they do!!

http://www.duckflatwoodenboats.com/m...gallery?KID=31

I will continue to search out the places I roam for more sites mind here you may have to learn Norwegian or Sweedish REALLY REALLY QUICK mate cause some of them dont have an English translation!!
:eek:

Hope thats been of some help