
Slowly we're getting the ships sides up, right now we just finished the third row of planks. Viking ships were built by riveting planks to eachother. In ancient times the boats had rivets up to 30 cm apart. Nowadays Northern boatbuilding and safety standards require the rivets to be no more than 11 cm apart. That means lots and lots and lots of riveting.


The planks of a viking ship twist very high near the fore and aft, therefore it is easy to raise the ends of the ship very high. In the middle of the ship the planks are almost horizontal, making a wide "belly".

Kolmanda planguringi valmimist valvab laevakoer Kaaro.
Third plankrow is being closely guarded by our boatdog Kaaro.
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