Siggi52

Hello Keith, Tiger is since 3-4 weeks again in my shop in the basement to acclimatize. So when I have nothing else to do, I will start there again.

Many, many thanks for your kind comments and the many likes

Slowly I realize that the ship has finished and the tension is decreasing. Also the tension in my neck, from rigging. Here the summer is back, today it should be 34°C, and I will enjoy it lazy in my garden. 😄

Have a nice day, Siggi

Hello,

now the pictures of the finished Gokstad ship. Enjoy it.

And thank you, thank you Keith

Thank you, Ian

Hello and thank you for all the likes,

today I finished the ship mostly. The rigging is complet and only the oars and some smaler things must be fastened. Some pictures with the last sun for today. More tomorrow

Hello,

the sail is set. But at least not completly rigged.

The upper parrel rope, I think, I must also make in 0,4 mm Ø rope like the lower rope. But that is something for tommorow.

Hello,

the summer is back 😀 We will see how long it last and we have here 19°C again.

Today I finished the sail and the next days I hope it will be at the ship.

The front side

and the back side

7 hours ago, woodrat said:

The graffiti remain very interesting as they were probably drawn by sailors not artists.

Just let it. Find it out yourself.

On 8/3/2025 at 8:45 PM, Harvey Golden said:

I used archival pva glue to attach the bolt ropes.

Hello Harvey,

thank you for that tip. It works well.

Hello Harvey,

a nice model you build there. I have one question, how did you attached the boldrope to your sails. I'm trying at the moment to build the sail for my Gokstad ship, and tryed to sew the boldrope to my Silkspan sail. It did't work ☹️ Did you glue it on and with what?

Hello Dick,

if you wont to know more about these ships, you should get it. It's worth the money. I got my copy for 40€ + 13€ taxes and shipping.

Ones again to your „the sail should be as wide as the ship is long, 23,4 m“. Imagine, the ship is 5,2 m broad, than the sail would stand to both sides 9m over the board. How would you handle such a sail? And close-hauled sailing would't be possible. Ms Bischoff looked for the points where the sail was attached to the ship, close-hauled. And that was the width of the sail. Just simple.

Hello Dick,

one sourse you did't mention, the sagas. And Ms Bishoff worked up all the sources you mention and came to the result I have showed. After Ian wrote his coment, I re-read the chapter about the sail.

Did you have her Book? It is very interesting to read and she used every source available. ISBN 0901-778X and 978-87-85180-77-3. I got my copy through Amazon from California.

I'm sorry, but my english is't so good to make here scientific discoursions and I'm not an expert for Viking ships. You may be right that the sails they build today look more like modern sails, but she also has arguments for the shape of the sails she build and why the sails were not as wide as the ship is long at the picture stones and coins. 

have a nice day

Hello Ian,

the only representations of Viking ships are available on the Gotland stones as far as I know. And they are not very detailed. Also they found only some fragments of densely woven wool fabric with rope of lime bast. So the sails are not very much documented, at least in the sagas. Im my case, I'm using what Vibeke Bischoff has reserched with her experimental archaelogy.

Hello,

just a short sign of life, but no great progress. I'm bussy with the sail. My first try with silkspan did't work for me. The bolt rope tears out when I tried to sew it on. So for tomorrow plan B, linnen.

So should it look

And that is the the first try. Did't look bad, but did't work 😐 At least the color is't so red, it's more a red-brown

Thank you, Keith

I see, the trent goes to macro modelling 😏

Hello,

today I finished the anchor. At the Gokstad ship they found only a rust trace of an anchor from 1,1 m length, and an anchor stock of 2.75 m length. At the Oseberg ship they found an anchor of 1 m length, and two anchor stocks. One of 1,5 m and the other of 2,7 m length. The anchor fits to the smaler stock. May be, they though that the dead in heaven did't need the large anchor.

So I build the smaler typ of anchor. Material are pieces brass wire of 0,8 and 1 mm, hammered flat and to form and for the rings 0,4 and 0,5 mm wire.

Thank you, Johnny

and have fun with it

Hello and thanks for your nice comments a d likes

Today I cleared the deck from rope ends, at least from the shrouts. The next thing to build is the sail. I ordered Silkspan, and it should arrive here someone next week.

Hello,

John, today it is to be 27°C here and sunshine, but next week again it is only 22°C and rain. And it's a nice boot you have build. Did you have Viking genes?

Today I finished the standing rigg. And I know now exactly, why I don't like rigging. These stuborne and nasty twines, who go always the directin you don't want ☹️ It was realy loud yesterday in the basement!

But the result is great, I think. Now the ship looks fuller, more compact. Enjoy the pictures. The strongest rope is the forestay with 0,7 mm Ø, the shrouts and forestay have 6,5 mm Ø

Hello, and thank you for your likes

today I build the gangplank. So that the Vikings could leave and enter the ship in a hurry, to plunder! Also new is the mast, the fifth now and I hope the last one. This one is at least the most correct. It's hard to get there informations, because not all parts of the masts, also from the Oseberg ship, survived. But I found at YouTube an interesting video with both ships: Råseilseminaret 2013 - vikingskipene Saga Oseberg og Gaia, and that answes my questions.

And I started with rigging. First the toggle and blocks for the stays and shrouds.

Hello and thank you for your comments and likes

because here is no summer anymore, (last week we had 36°C, now 16-20°C) I'm busy at the shipyard. After I found new pictures of the Gokstad ship, I had to change somethings.

That means to tear off again. These rails are also on starboard, and Dammann wrote, there where none! The helmsman got also a backrest.

Today I build the suporters for the beitiass. That was a nightmare, but now it's done.

I'm ready with the ship so far and the rigging can begin.

Hello,

the oars are on board and the stand is ready.

Hello,

it is done! All 32 oars are ready. Only 6 pairs, the shortest, have the same lengs. From 5,30 m up to 5,85 m have all other pairs a different lengs. The longest pairs are for the stem and stern, there the oaremen sit at the highest places.