Sea Stallion from Glendalough

The Sea Stallion from Glendalough - a reconstruction of a war ship from the viking age - is prepared for the big challege: The voyage to Dublin. More on http://seastallion.dk

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• viking
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• adventure
• extreme

[Polypropellor]

Excellent vid...too bad she's now to be dry forever. A true piece of living history.

[havhingsten]

@Polypropellor: The ship is planning a trip next year

[Kenzofeis]

He he, some rythm in the rowing wouldn't harm. But seems they didn't have a shouter onboard.

[havhingsten]

@Kenzofeis: We don't use a shouter and neither did the vikings. The first rower (in the aft) on starboard side make the pace. On this video from 2004-05, we are still practicing. Today, we are much better : )

[BelligerentAuthority]

I have a quick question. Wouldn't the low rails make that dangerous in rough seas?

[havhingsten]

@BelligerentAuthority: Yes, certainly!

[Bibo59]

Wow! That ship really moves smoothly through the water. Beautiful.

[ghostlove91]

Really cool. I wish I'd be in one of these boats.

[dogterd]

can someone in the know tell us if these ships were equipped with a bilge pump of some kind, or did the guys just use bail scoops

[wmh829386]

I have a question, How this ship tack with only one square rig?

[LarS1963]

@leifthor415 Actually it's a replica of the second longest.

Some years ago, when the harbour was built around the Roskilde Vikingeskibs Museum, where the Skuldelev Ships are on display, a number of wrecks were found, amongst those one that was even longer than wreck 2-4, which is the one Havhingsten is based upon.

The new wrecks has been preseved and catalogized, and of course studied, but as of yet no funds exists to put any of them on display, unfortunately.

[leifthor415]

My favorite thing about how Vikings existed was their respect for not impinging your ideals upon another, or the respect of each person's unique character, valuing that over a collective matrix, while still having a very amazing social society at the same time. It was a Renaissance period for them, of which the viking ships were the prime example of doing more with less. Bloody works of art the ships are for what they did, and how well they did it.

[badazzkiller23]

@leifthor415 how do people think that vikings only came from norway and iceland when they also came from denmark and sweden as well its annying please tell this to you´re friends so they know of the other countries who where vikings as well

[captkirkconnell]

@havhingsten cool, It is very beautiful

[havhingsten]

@SkyyCaptainn: We've been out in very heavy weather with high waves. The ship has always manage to stay dry - or almost. When we crossed the Celtic Sea in 2008, we bailed out 18-20 tons of water in one day... But since the ship has a very little keel, it'll always try to get upwards the waves, even when they are high and hits from the side. But of course, safe sailing is about lower/reefing the sail and slow down the speed.