Carving Boat Stems Part One

If you want to build your own Viking boat, this podcast is for you. Follow Andy Bennett in Minnesota as he undertakes the step-by-step process to build and sail a replica of a 900-year-old Viking lapstrake sailboat. Boat dimensions come from the Gislinge Boat Open Source Project, published by the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark. Weekly episodes follow construction progress, costs, and lessons learned. They alsow show how to make specialized tools. In this episode, Andy is beginning to carve out the fore and aft stem pieces for the boat that will attach to each end of the keel and form the overall backbone of the vessel.