Dragon Harald Fairhair - A glimpse from the shipyard
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2011
- Dragon Harald Fairhair is the largest Viking ship built in modern times. The Dragon is coming together in Western Norway. Since we rarely allow visitors inside the shipyard, we now invite you to get a glimpse of what is going on during construction. A normal working day in May 2011....
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What a fabulous project. So much better to spend time, effort and money on boat building than wasting time in front of the almighty telly.
I hope you are documenting this project with infinite care.
All the best
Christine
We like this, and you can really smell the wood, good luck with future work, and the launch of the ship.
A thing of beauty. Jeg elsker det!
Its a very nice ship. But sadly its boards are too thick perhaps. These ships might have kited and then weight or thick boars would have been less preffered. Stories from saga indicated that they sail not so well in sidewins anyway and that because of this they sailed often where the wind took them- rowing when needed.
Can't wait to see it sailing and by the way Andy, 1 of June is spring not summer mate :) Best regards from Darek
June is summer but okay.
@xassxass
No, the boards of Dragon Harald Fairhair are not too thick. They are max 5 to 6 cm thick. This would have been standard on such a large ship. For example; the Storhaug ship (buried by the strait Karmsund in 779), had 6 cm thick boards. The Storhaug ship was also an ocean-going vessels constructed to withstand rough seas. Alas, there is little info about the Storhaug ship in English.
Flott at noen vil bruke penger på et slikt prosjekt!
Fakta.; lengde, bredde, seilareal, ballast, årehull etc etc???
Vi nordmenn har mye å være stolte over.
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Why can't you gather rowers from colleges in nothern Europe and actually propel it with man power as originally done?
Great video.. But please, BAGPIPES?? Horrible