No this is simply the most helpful video I’ve found when planning my viking inspired riverboat design

What planks were used? Traditional craft were made using split planks, made by splitting the log with axes and wedges, rather than sawing the planks. They are lighter and far more flexible, but take long to make and require more skill. Your boat looks to be made of modern, sawed planks

That is so nice.. I can just see this boat in the Santee swamp . May have to get me a template

Master Johnson (or should I say Johansen?), sharing your historical & technical seafaring knowledge via this video has been both fascinating & a rare privilege, Sir. What a wonderful project! May Njord keep you & your faering safe 🧜‍♂️

Great piece of film for any boat builder. Thanks for sharing

Quite educational, thanks for the well organized documentary. Answered many of my questions, some I didn't know I had!

Good God, I know less now that before i saw this. plus for someone with less than 100% color vision, this presentation is very difficult to see.

Thank you very much for sharing the information and video.

Love your video. What year is your beetle? I've got 3 69s a 70 and 73

Jack don't exist

I want a 20 ft boat like that

Please excuse me, but the fulcrum of the oar is at the oarlock, not at the blade.

excelent video lot of infformation and experience

My brother in law has one of these up in the Sognefjord. It's amazing to row.

Thanks, man

So great! Thank you. How do you cut a taper into a hollow birds mouth mast?

Capt Johnson. It was lovely to see your beautiful vessel. From the way you have described your various nautical adventures and experiences I thank you for sharing your visual experiences from your locations and your various sailing plans you have experimented with on your beautiful handcrafted longboat.. may gentle breeze’s and fair-winds, grace and caress your sails as you journey throughout your life and waterways. I also have had an opportunity of sailing small Scandinavian in their appearance, and designs of vessels that have been built from modern materials such as fibre glass and resins . I have come to realise and appreciate the basic construction of design of the first sailing vessels constructed from wood and animal skins.

Great boat and great video! I've never been to northern Europe, but i live on a fjord in Alaska. The winds are either blowing up the fjord or down the fjord, so it makes sense to me that the Norse would row upwind, sail downwind, and leave the reaching and beating to non-fjord-dwelling civilizations. I started building an Oughtred Elfyn, I need to get it finished...

A Junk rig may eliminate the reefing problem of the lanteen.

Very nice job doing this video! FYI, both of my parents families came from Norway. I have been living in Minnesota since 1978 when I moved here from California. I was born on a naval Air station in Washington State, which I think is interesting in that my mother's family comes from Trondheim, Norway. That City was created more than a thousand years ago and 997, during the Viking age. It had its 1000th anniversary in 1997. My father's family originates in the Balestrand or Fjearland fjord area. Again, I'm very grateful for your video and find it very interesting. I have a sense that I would have done something like this had my circumstance been different growing up. Sometime I make contact you privately to exchange stories and genealogy. Tusen Takk.

Good on you for going to all that trouble with the calculations as well as the construction. Ive got a two mast Sharpie skiff . The masts are 22 ft main and 21 foot mizzen. They are two bamboo poles five inches at the base tapering to one and a half in at the tip. They cost $30 the pair. No thinking or calculating required. She's been sailing 12 yrs now. Cheers

In faroe islands🇫🇴 were im from we still use tees we used it since the viking age

I absolutely love your boat, i must know where you got the plans. How hard was it to build. Did you get a kit?

Interesting stuff.

Very cool

Amazing work!

Sailing simplicity was critical as survival demanded everyone needed to be fairly capable of handling the boats... sickness, disease, short life spans and war could easily remove more experienced individuals from small settlements. 👣🕊👽

Being the family SUV... seating was likely bundles of firs which would be used for camping, the low free board was also efficient for loading and off loading, especially of livestock, another reason for the low initial stability... Vikings ponies could leap into battle directly from the ship a shock and awe technique often used during raids. 👣🕊👽

Awesome video! It's hard to imagine the level of intent that not only research and build the boat, but accomodated the experimentation with the performance and comfort alterations. Seems that most of the faering replicas have been made with raised thwarts and tholes (oarloocks) and other items. Doesnt this effectively raise the CG of the vessel and question any conclusions on the original's range and performance... especially to weather, as a dingy sailor would be sitting on the floor to windward.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnypdIqKnamSgtE a rc Viking boat that sails in reverse. I can tack it in 12 seconds but I can reverse it in 2 seconds. This is my fourth comment here. All my comments seem to get deleted. Any idea why?

Great explanation and videography. Appreciated by a Swedish-American. - SV Free Spirit - Tarpon Springs, Florida Skål!

Been a carpenter for 20 years. A boat os something i need to challenge myself with.

Awesome boat!👍😎🇨🇦🌊

Great information here, Thank You. I built Iain Oughtred's Elfyn Faering over the winter of 2021. I am in my second season of enjoying this wonderful design and have come many of the same conclusions as you. I built mine specifically for fishing the rivers and near coastal areas of Oregon, have been out in 3' seas 8 seconds apart and she handles them wonderfully. I am needing to replace my kabes, the oak I used is beginning to crack, what did you use? It looks like purple heart in the video.

This boat is a true work of art.

Oh my … I now realize how stupid I am. 🤦‍♂️ Can I measure my boat and get you to tell me what size oar I need?

Excellent.

This is such an excellent little series of videos on eye splices. I love that you show them so clearly and explain why things are done the way they are and what the different features, benefits and drawbacks are for all the different kinds. This series on eye splices really deserves loads and loads more views - and loads and loads more thumbs ups too. I can't thank you enough for the time you've taken to teach us what you've learned. It is like discovering Aladdin's Cave full of treasures and hardly anyone knows it is here. What a treasure! Like I say, I can't thank you enough, but t I can start. Thank you so, so much.

Wonderful video, Mr Johnson. I've been researching faerings for awhile and your experimentation has been quite educational

OK, this is a bit overcomplicated, but necessary to demonstrate the concept. In practice, it is fast and REALLY SHOWY. Has a 'wow' factor to bystanders. This is not as strong as a traditional eye splice, I have tested both types to failure.

Could have used this info many years ago when I was at Shaw & Tenny, oar manufacturers in Maine. I was talking with a woman there about what size spoons to buy and we had quite a discussion. I asked her is it would help for her to see my boat, and she replied in the affirmative. I took her to the parking lot where I had a load of clear northern white cedar. I had just picked it up and was on my way home to Massachusetts. She had a good laugh.

Great work. Thanks for sharing

Such a simple thing. Three strands. Yet the application of a rope is uncountable.Thanks for posting

The finish is awful and can't be sold to any client wanting a wooden mast. Your videos about building the hollow masts were great with so much attention for detail. I disagree also on the sense of glassing a mast for mechanical protection. A traditional varnish will be easy to repair when the gaff hits the mast accidently. Glass with Epoxy may be broken and create a white spot, letting water in and therefore causing root behind the glass.

Why not use a dado blade and make a single cut on the birds mouth?

Thanks! Your classes are really helping me. I already built the boom (kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWG8mqmdYriDjrs) and now I'm going for the mast!

this is nearly impossible to hear...

Speak up

Enjoyed the content but audio was poor

Late to the show, but really enjoyed it. Picked up several pointers. The nails trick is terrific.