Episode #1 birth of weird plan, keel, planks. I build a viking ship with no experience or skills.

Funny stories, wonky planks, radical steaming method, what is glued lapstrake, the keel is easy, bending planks is not. I like to think that Olav the boneless would have also preferred marine grade plywood if it was available to him.
Join me in this series of videos in moments of DESPERATION, LEAKING stuff, BREAKING stuff, WEIRD stuff and free hand chainsaw carpentry.
Not exaggerating here. I am a total newbie. I did not know the difference between the stern and the bow (the bow is the front end, I know now).
So there turns out to be a boat building strategy for amateurs. If you google: if you can't build a boat, can you still build a boat? You get results that basically tell you: plywood, epoxy and you buy a plan from a boat designer. Then, do exactly as they tell you and you will also be able to build a boat. But can you build a viking boat, or what you would now call a traditional scandinavian clinker built boat? Answer: No, you can't.
Well I thought, luck favours the brave.
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I use a 2:1 epoxy system much like this one: amzn.to/3Rqg65q
You can get designs (which I did not use) from several places that will get you a scandinavian boat. The word faering is not really correct, but who cares.
Check out these:
duckworks.com/kari-2-faering-plans/
duckworks.com/kari-24-norwegian-faering/
www.woodenboatstore.com/products/16-6-elfyn
www.vivierboats.com/en/product/youkou-lili-2/
In future installments I will show you how I came up with a "design" for a 20 foot long "treröring", which means boat for three rowers. It's more of a building method than an actual design. The boat for two rowers is called a faering. Many people in the english speaking world believe that faering is the name of the model or the building tradition, but that is not true, that is just the name for a size. The boat model is based on the location it hails from: nordlandsbåt, geitbåt, Hardangerbåt. The model that I most wanted to copy was the Sunnfjord model. Also a good thing to realise: there is an unbroken boat building tradition since the viking age of building these types of boat. Also the ones that are still being built today are ALMOST THE SAME as in the viking age. A side rudder has been replaced by a back rudder with a push-pull tiller, but that's about it. Now I was not going to build the boat from wooden planks fitted with self-forged nails, like the builders in Norway, Denmark and Sweden still do, but apart from using epoxy and plywood I went with an approach that would yield a viking boat as the vikings would love to see them built today.
Please join me in the quest to get this thing in the water and not sink. You will find out whether it worked or not! :-)
One cool coïncidence is that the norwegian ship building tradition became recognised as world heritage while I was doing this. www.immateriellkulturarv.no/bidrag/tradisjonell-klinkbatbygging/

[@jordyb8487]

You never listen to others. Didn’t knew 😂😂😂

[@ElggNamba]

I am pretty sure YOU will build a boat. Keep it up. Great series. ⛵

[@stephenmundane]

Fantastic! Go your own way.

[@keeszandbergen6265]

Can not wait for the next episode.

[@rnew1262]

Great stuff. I watch a lot of your videos and I also watch Roger Barnes. He has a mirror dinghy (boat without a keel) and goes off, camps on his boat. He does that by creating a canopy over the boom, the rest is personal choice. Thanks again

[@davepenaphd4300]

LOL! This might be peak Pappa Hiker.

[@What_If_We_Tried]

Absolutely hilariously courageous!

[@omesmeeb]

my dream to build a viking ship great stuff

[@kentmulter]

Hi Papa, I really enjoyed this video! I''m a sailor as well as a hiker / camper. I own a boat that I bought with no masts or sails; I designed and built the entire sailing rig. So I've been down the same path that you are traveling. Humans all over the world have been building these simple boats for thousands of years. You can do it too! You seem to be doing everything right with your research, construction techniques, and your willingness to be creative and improvise; that's an important quality for any sailor. Looking forward to the rest of the story!

[@donnydread7631]

God speed my friend!