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dreadnought72

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Re: Viking Longships
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2010, 10:44:24 pm »
Good to hear from you Andrew - as I dive once again into Medieval Ships and Shipping, which has a pile of info on these "late" but oh-so-Norse vessels!

Andy
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Re: Viking Longships
« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2010, 11:36:58 pm »
Found this site while I was looking for another vessel, haven't looked at them so I am not sure what quality they are, but anything is worth a look I say.

http://www.freeshipplans.com/free_sail_yatch_plans.html
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Re: Viking Longships
« Reply #27 on: January 09, 2010, 05:14:35 pm »
Found another free set on....

www.shipmodels.com.ua/eng/models/drawings/index.htm

May work.

Tony
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Re: Viking Longships
« Reply #28 on: January 24, 2010, 12:30:51 pm »
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Re: Viking Longships
« Reply #29 on: November 29, 2011, 10:08:37 pm »
When dug up, the Ostberg Ship contained a bailer!
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Re: Viking Longships
« Reply #30 on: November 29, 2011, 10:15:16 pm »
Quote from: alan colson on January 04, 2010, 10:41:04 am
I knew somebody that built one of these, it looked fabulous out of the water, on the water was a different matter, because it has so little freeboard it takes on water easily, with the single large sail if the wind caught the ship from the side it filled up and sunk, if you tried to head into wind the sail took over completely and it went backwards. Have not seen it for a couple of years now, not even certain who owns it now or if it even exists so please don't ask fot photo's as I cannot help.
Alan

Many years ago my father built a model longship and experienced exactly those problems.
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Re: Viking Longships
« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2011, 12:56:03 pm »
The problems issues opportunities I found are:

Symmetry - the whole boat is totally symmetrical so forwards and backwards are equally easy (or difficult)
Sail control  - the user, not the servo system :}  my sail rotates a little more than 180 degrees and hasn't reall got a "front"
Orientation - see the two points above (the person I built it for asked me to put the dragon head back on (and it would be easier if the sail had different colours front and back)

otherwise she does exactly what you would expect and hope for: 
Accelerates well,
Slips thru the water with no wake
Causes discussion
Good pillaging boat :}

I aim to do about a one metre version by basically the same methods - this will be much more buoyant and stable and the dragon's teeth will be easier to carve
andrew
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