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an old fashioned boat is shown in black and white, as well as the plans for it

I do realize that the subject of deep keels verses shallow keels has been debated to death but I think that I may have a different perspective. A little background I am a very enthusiastic medieval re-enactor (SCA) and for the past 20 years or so I have researched Norse ship construction, both the long ship and knarr varities, as the Norse are my focal time period. In the process of this research, I have also looked at various cultural maritime designs spanning many mellinae…

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Viking Knarr Wood Model Boat Kit by Dusek Dusek Ship Kits The Knarr is a type of Viking ship which served for long trade naval business. The Knarrs were very robust and resisted unfavorable conditions in open sea extremely well. This model represents a similar Knarr found near the village of Skuldelev in Denmark, known as Skuldelev 1. The original was built in Norway between 1030 and 1050 mainly from oak and pine. The length of the ship was about 16.3m and displacement about 24 tonnes…

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a drawing of a boat with people on it

With a couple recent threads about layout of lapstrakes, and square rigging a Viking Longboat, this piqued my curiosity. I recall seeing the ancient longboat in the museum in Oslo a few years back, and being amazed/dumbfounded about how they got that up-sweep in the strakes at the stem and stern. Looking close, they were scarf jointing the strakes to get the curvature. In anycase, I decided to loft up the strake layout of a Viking Longboat, (in this case, the Bolger design 572, a

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