I helped sail a 46' sailboat from Ketchikan, Alaska to Port Townsend, WA in August and while there, we went to the NW School of Wooden Boat building and I met a man (can't remember his name) who is working on your Hardraade boat project including building the tools to build the ship. He teaches at the school in Port Townsend and is increasing his knowledge of wooden boat building by helping you guys with your project. I'm 65 years young and have been sailing for nearly 40 years now so it was a dream to get to see the school and to meet someone involved w/ this project!
Howdy Lucas- thank you so much for sharing another fantastic video! Love the old history. I’m thankful for those who are willing to undertake a wonderful project like this. God bless you
I love this series on viking ship builds. I find them very interesting & fascinating. I'm sure there are many more people such as myself that love & appreciate the educational videos you create. Plzzz keep them coming
I Liki it Very much, I Enjoy all the proses Of the Original Way of the longship Building. SALING ON A VIKING SHIP WILL Be The Greatest Experience on This PLANET.!!! JOSEF TORREZ of Puerto Rico Skoll.!!!
A holy moment for me was visiting the Oslo Skepps museum. The lines and complex curves fashioned in flexible wood to bend over the waves? Ah, can still not match those shipwrights. My wife was bemused by her husband’s worship of beauty. The Vikings came from a rough era but were highly technologically advanced.
Weaving a sail? My curiosity is piqued there, somehow it did not occur to me that sailcloth is woven. My wife has a loom much like the one we glimpsed at the end here.
It is quite the undertaking. Outside the experience of any of the weavers, despite them having a great deal of prior experience. I have footage of setting up the long threads on one of the looms, but want some of the actual weaving too before making the film. The product is incredibly tight and heavy, really quite unlike a wool product, and if I had not known it was wool in the sample I looked at, I would have guessed it was Jute or Flaxen.
Yes 20 meters, it took us 10 hours, and the previous one 12, there will be four or five looms, as far as I remember. I would like to have a go too but it is perhaps too skilled work to just drop in on.
I remember a book. Veeery good book. Few years ago I read Tim Severin's trilogy " Viking ". It's amazing book. The third book " Varangian guard " is about Harald Hardrada... love these sagas. Actually all three books are very good.
I would love for someone or some organization to do a step by step with the builders explaining each and every step involved from the laying of the keel to raising the sail . Why you need to do each step and how. Minute details please
@@LucasRichardStephens I would love that, but being on a small pension that would be very hard to do. I was a millwright and machinist as well I like woodworking projects . Also Ret’d military
The old norse must have had a more efficient way of making boards.It's ridiculous to think they split huge oaks with wedges to make boards. It takes too much effort and time and men to make one board if you watch some of these documentaries. They made whole fleets and didn't have the time to carve every damn board with axes. I think they had some method lost after all these centuries.
We can still see the axe marks on boards from the period. If you watch a few more of my films you will see that using the axe to side timber is still in use in the production of materials for restoration work on houses at present. There is artwork showing axes being used, so there really is no doubt about how boards were made. What is lost but easily regained is the skill with the axe. After a few hundred hours practice you can get very accurate and effective with an axe.
@@LucasRichardStephens Yes I've seen the old woodcuts and art showing men using axes. I spend a lot of time working with wood myself and know what a problem the knots can be. I've been interested in old Norse culture for decades. Thanks for your informed reply. Still, I find it difficult to believe they used only wedges and axes to make so many boards, enough to build a ship in one season. The axe marks could simply be a finishing touch to even out rough areas. The few boards I've seen made with wedges were extremely crooked and uneven, and would take a long time to smooth into uniform workable pieces. Also how many boards they could get from one tree is interesting to consider. Seems it would take a small army of skilled men to just make the boards for a single ship, even with slave help doing the grunt work. There's still so much about life back then that we know little about. I'm no expert on this topic, just a little skeptical about the board making process.
@Northman1963 It is perfectly possible some saws existed, they certainly did in other contemporary cultures. No saws or evidence of saws have been found (of that period) in any archaeological dig in Scandinavia, that I am aware of, while many other tools have. You would be surprised how swiftly one can produce boards with just an axe. A lot of the finesse is in technique. Sawing by hand is very hard and slow work, it saves materials, but I would not fancy it. In any event we have to follow the grain of the wood for technical reasons, every board takes what ever spiralling shape the tree's growth pattern imparted. I can't think of any easier way of doing it than we employ. We get a few more boards out of each tree using the chainsaw mill, than the the Vikings would have, but not that many more. It is perhaps less time consuming than it appears, it certainly takes us longer to fit the boards to the boat than to produce the basic boards.
@@LucasRichardStephens This is fascinating. I've never tried to hew a long board with an axe so I'll take your word for it. My hat's off to those amazingly skilled craftsmen from the viking age and you and your team as well.
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I love it . A history lesson and a building film . Well done Lucas.
Thanks Mum!
I helped sail a 46' sailboat from Ketchikan, Alaska to Port Townsend, WA in August and while there, we went to the NW School of Wooden Boat building and I met a man (can't remember his name) who is working on your Hardraade boat project including building the tools to build the ship. He teaches at the school in Port Townsend and is increasing his knowledge of wooden boat building by helping you guys with your project. I'm 65 years young and have been sailing for nearly 40 years now so it was a dream to get to see the school and to meet someone involved w/ this project!
That will be Dave, yes, he is a treasure. It is a great project, thanks for watching and your kind comment, all the best, Lucas.
I can't imagine building thirty of these ships
wooden shipbuilding is so fascinating to me. Thanks for all your videos!
you mentioned an art style around 6:00 - can i ask for a spelling of it so i can search?
@@joshwalker5605 It is Ringerike style no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringeriksstil
jonaslaumarkussen.com/ringerikestyle/
Thanks for watching Josh!
Howdy Lucas- thank you so much for sharing another fantastic video! Love the old history. I’m thankful for those who are willing to undertake a wonderful project like this. God bless you
Thanks for dropping by my friend, it has been a busy time, learning a great deal! All the best wishes for advent, God bless you and you kin.
I love this series on viking ship builds. I find them very interesting & fascinating. I'm sure there are many more people such as myself that love & appreciate the educational videos you create. Plzzz keep them coming
More to come!
I Liki it Very much, I Enjoy all the proses
Of the Original Way of the longship
Building. SALING ON A VIKING SHIP
WILL Be The Greatest Experience on
This PLANET.!!!
JOSEF TORREZ of Puerto Rico
Skoll.!!!
Thanks for watching and commenting Josef, skål!
This is brilliant.
Thanks Kevin!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful videos, looking forward to see this ship sailing in the near future.
Thanks for watching!
A holy moment for me was visiting the Oslo Skepps museum. The lines and complex curves fashioned in flexible wood to bend over the waves? Ah, can still not match those shipwrights. My wife was bemused by her husband’s worship of beauty. The Vikings came from a rough era but were highly technologically advanced.
Brilliant Lucas, cheers
Thank you!
Excellent presentation! Apply for job as Attenboroughs successor...
Wow, thank you!
Weaving a sail? My curiosity is piqued there, somehow it did not occur to me that sailcloth is woven. My wife has a loom much like the one we glimpsed at the end here.
It is quite the undertaking. Outside the experience of any of the weavers, despite them having a great deal of prior experience. I have footage of setting up the long threads on one of the looms, but want some of the actual weaving too before making the film. The product is incredibly tight and heavy, really quite unlike a wool product, and if I had not known it was wool in the sample I looked at, I would have guessed it was Jute or Flaxen.
@@LucasRichardStephens Wool sailcloth?!? Wow. Also, it must be a really long warp.
Yes 20 meters, it took us 10 hours, and the previous one 12, there will be four or five looms, as far as I remember. I would like to have a go too but it is perhaps too skilled work to just drop in on.
I remember a book. Veeery good book.
Few years ago I read Tim Severin's trilogy " Viking ".
It's amazing book. The third book " Varangian guard " is about Harald Hardrada... love these sagas. Actually all three books are very good.
I like Tim Severin's books!' but I have not read the Viking Trilogy. Thanks for the recommendation, all the best, Lucas.
@@LucasRichardStephens " Odinn's son " is the name of the first book from the trilogy. " Sworn brother " is the second book.
All the best!
I would love for someone or some organization to do a step by step with the builders explaining each and every step involved from the laying of the keel to raising the sail . Why you need to do each step and how. Minute details please
It sounds like you should come along and get involved. thanks for watching.
@@LucasRichardStephens I would love that, but being on a small pension that would be very hard to do. I was a millwright and machinist as well I like woodworking projects . Also Ret’d military
The meaning of Hardråde does not refer to the noun advice - norwegian "et råd" - but to the verb to rule - norwegian "å råde"
Thanks Svein, now, what did you think of the film?
@@LucasRichardStephensI loved the film. It is very relaxsing working with wood.
The old norse must have had a more efficient way of making boards.It's ridiculous to think they split huge oaks with wedges to make boards. It takes too much effort and time and men to make one board if you watch some of these documentaries. They made whole fleets and didn't have the time to carve every damn board with axes. I think they had some method lost after all these centuries.
We can still see the axe marks on boards from the period. If you watch a few more of my films you will see that using the axe to side timber is still in use in the production of materials for restoration work on houses at present. There is artwork showing axes being used, so there really is no doubt about how boards were made. What is lost but easily regained is the skill with the axe. After a few hundred hours practice you can get very accurate and effective with an axe.
@@LucasRichardStephens Yes I've seen the old woodcuts and art showing men using axes. I spend a lot of time working with wood myself and know what a problem the knots can be. I've been interested in old Norse culture for decades. Thanks for your informed reply. Still, I find it difficult to believe they used only wedges and axes to make so many boards, enough to build a ship in one season. The axe marks could simply be a finishing touch to even out rough areas. The few boards I've seen made with wedges were extremely crooked and uneven, and would take a long time to smooth into uniform workable pieces. Also how many boards they could get from one tree is interesting to consider. Seems it would take a small army of skilled men to just make the boards for a single ship, even with slave help doing the grunt work. There's still so much about life back then that we know little about. I'm no expert on this topic, just a little skeptical about the board making process.
@Northman1963 It is perfectly possible some saws existed, they certainly did in other contemporary cultures. No saws or evidence of saws have been found (of that period) in any archaeological dig in Scandinavia, that I am aware of, while many other tools have. You would be surprised how swiftly one can produce boards with just an axe. A lot of the finesse is in technique. Sawing by hand is very hard and slow work, it saves materials, but I would not fancy it. In any event we have to follow the grain of the wood for technical reasons, every board takes what ever spiralling shape the tree's growth pattern imparted. I can't think of any easier way of doing it than we employ. We get a few more boards out of each tree using the chainsaw mill, than the the Vikings would have, but not that many more. It is perhaps less time consuming than it appears, it certainly takes us longer to fit the boards to the boat than to produce the basic boards.
@@LucasRichardStephens This is fascinating. I've never tried to hew a long board with an axe so I'll take your word for it. My hat's off to those amazingly skilled craftsmen from the viking age and you and your team as well.