Viking Canoe - the Arby Boat

[TonyH]

I ran across this in a ship modelling magazine the other day. At 13 foot long it might make a nice "retro" canoe.

http://www.sjolander.com/viking/museum/Arbyboat.gif

[WCM]

Pretty neat. From what I read on a site that offers the plans for sale, the canoe was apparently built around 900 AD, appears to have had some Sámi (Laplander) influence and could possibly have been used for a female burial (as was the case with the much larger Oseberg find in Norway). It is estimated to have been in use for about one hundred years before being used as a coffin and is the only canoe find to date in Sweden that dates from the Viking period.

More information can be found at
http://www.algonet.se/~gwarner/canoe.htm

[mmd]

Oy!! What a tender craft she must be.

[Andrew]

Oy!! What a tender craft she must be.

Oh I don't think that boat rocked at all until they dug it up.:p