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Real Viking Ship Completes North Atlantic Crossing
GCaptain.com ^
| June 30, 2016
| GCaptain Staff
Posted on 06/30/2016 11:32:36 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard
The worlds largest viking ship has arrived in North America after crossing the North Atlantic Ocean on a journey from its homeport in Haugesund, Norway.
The Viking ship, named Draken Harald Hårfagre, set sail from Norway with its approximately 32 crew members in late April and made stops in Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, Canada, before making its way through the Saint Lawrence Seaway to Toronto for the Tall Ships Challenge Great Lakes 2016 festival this weekend.
Future stops for the Viking ship include Chicago, Green Bay and Duluth, before heading to U.S. east coast with stops in New York City and finally Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut in October.
Draken Harald Hårfagre is actually not a replica, rather a real-life Viking ship built based ancient Norwegian boat building techniques dug up from the history books and archaeological findings. Construction was completed in 2014 and it is now heralded as the worlds largest Viking ship ever built in modern times.
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To: Fred Hayek
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posted on
06/30/2016 12:20:00 PM PDT
by
Ketill Frostbeard
("Socialism is the Sword of Islam, and Islam is Satan clothed in flesh.")
To: mbarker12474
Absolutely going to see this ship... last year I went to see L’Hermione Lafayettes ship, which was meticulously reconstructed.
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posted on
06/30/2016 12:21:15 PM PDT
by
Katya
(Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
To: hondact200; 50mm; humblegunner; Semper Mark; Larry Lucido
"Anyhow of finding its itinerary of stops. Would be cool to watch it go through the Soo Locks in Sault Sainte marie on its way too of back from Duluth."(sic) It's only 2PM in the afternoon.
You're drunk already?
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posted on
06/30/2016 12:31:25 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire)
To: Ketill Frostbeard
Draken Harald Hårfagre is actually not a replica, rather a real-life Viking ship built based ancient Norwegian boat building techniques dug up from the history books and archaeological findings. In other words, a replica.
To: Ketill Frostbeard
They need eyes painted on the bow so they can see in foggy weather.
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posted on
06/30/2016 12:58:01 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Sh!t and two is eight.)
To: mbarker12474
Vikings figured out how to do it a long time ago.
Some folks, not so much, ever.
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posted on
06/30/2016 1:01:13 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: All
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posted on
06/30/2016 1:12:58 PM PDT
by
Ketill Frostbeard
("Socialism is the Sword of Islam, and Islam is Satan clothed in flesh.")
To: Ketill Frostbeard
I bet that was one helluva ride!!
I would loved to have been one of people making the trip.
Something to talk about for years.
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posted on
06/30/2016 1:25:46 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, fix it right.)
To: Ketill Frostbeard
"We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!"
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posted on
06/30/2016 4:02:00 PM PDT
by
Lee N. Field
("Bad eschatology drives out good.")
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks Ketill Frostbeard.
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posted on
06/30/2016 10:07:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: Ketill Frostbeard
Man, there is not enough Dramamine...
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posted on
06/30/2016 10:29:15 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: PLMerite
Been on the open ocean many times. Don’t know how to get seasick.
Don’t care for being on deck when there’s lightning crackling overhead, though.
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posted on
06/30/2016 10:40:44 PM PDT
by
Ketill Frostbeard
("At every doorway, one should look 'round. And fare not one pace from thy weapons." ~ODIN~)
To: Ketill Frostbeard
My only experience on the ocean was on a small fishing boat on the North Sea out of Whitby, North Yorkshire. I loaded up on Dramamine starting the night before so I was okay. Even ate a ham & cheese sub on the way out of the harbor.
Some of the other guys weren’t so lucky. But they were amusing.
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posted on
06/30/2016 11:32:36 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Tax-chick; moose07
I had no clue! What an awesomely beautiful craft she is! I wish I could have seen it in person. But I would have cried because the pics gave me cold chills. ;o]
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:19:13 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Don't waste your time looking back. You're not going that way. -- Ragnar Lothbrok)
To: Monkey Face
Yep, very cool. Makes me feel seasick just looking at the photos ;-).
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:25:33 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Estos sufrimientos pasaran, y la esperanza una salida marcara." ~ Abp. Romero)
To: Monkey Face
Just for you...your new screensaver ;)
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:48:48 AM PDT
by
Ketill Frostbeard
("At every doorway, one should look 'round. And fare not one pace from thy weapons." ~ODIN~)
To: Ketill Frostbeard; 4yearlurker; circlecity; Disambiguator; Fred Hayek; Georgia Girl 2; HomerBohn; ..
I should have included links regarding a couple of similar projects from the eastern Mediterranean, but got lazy.
sidebars:
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posted on
07/01/2016 5:49:37 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: Ketill Frostbeard
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posted on
07/01/2016 6:25:53 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Don't waste your time looking back. You're not going that way. -- Ragnar Lothbrok)
To: SunkenCiv
Felice Vinci “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales”
To: mbarker12474
Where was that? (#4 picture)
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