PORT HADLOCK — A group of shipwrights went back in time over the weekend as they learned boat-building techniques used in the 11th century by Vikings. “This may be the first time that Viking ...

SAN DIEGO — Some carpentry buffs spend their retirement years building birdhouses, furniture or jewelry boxes. Tom Kottmeier had bigger plans. The 76-year-old San Marcos resident has spent much of the ...

VISTAVISTA — Some carpentry buffs spend their retirement years building birdhouses, furniture or jewelry boxes. Tom Kottmeier had bigger plans. The 76-year-old San Marcos resident has spent much of ...

A NORTH EAST building society has sailed to the rescue of a North East charity on an “epic voyage” to support the mental health of ...

ROSKILDE, Denmark — For thousands of years, wooden sailboats allowed the peoples of Northern Europe to spread trade, influence and sometimes war across seas and continents. In December, the UN’s ...

For decades, Thomas Kottmeier has been driven by one obsession: to build a wooden replica Viking ship. He thought about it, studied, practiced, talked about it with his family at dinners, and found ...

At Bayonne High School classes are run like a tight ship, but none moreso than Greg Cea's carpentry class, whose students are in the process of building a Viking ship with hopes of seeing it sail on ...

The Draken was built in Haugesund, Norway from 2010 to 2012. The boat stretches almost 79 feet high and a little over 26 feet wide, with a 260 meter square silk sail. The ship is made of oak and ...

The team recreating a famous Anglo-Saxon burial ship is inviting the public to name it, but urged against joke suggestions ...

Building Viking shields is not the thing most teens spend their time on, but for one Aurora high school student the work was a perfect fit. For his Eagle Scout project, West Aurora High School senior ...

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Viking Yachts has a proven formula for expanding its fleet by building a completely new model within a model. The New Gretna, New Jersey, boatbuilder’s latest example is its 54 Sport Tower, a model ...