Tom Kottmeier’s 33-foot wooden boat, built over the past two years, will be shipped to Sweden in 2024 for a sail to Stockholm harbor VISTAVISTA — Some carpentry buffs spend their retirement years ...
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 ...
For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the “Oseberg,” ...
S/V Polaris, a Viking boat built by Anacortes builder Jay Smith, was launched from Bowman Bay in Deception Pass State Park on Saturday, Nov. 4. Owner of the boat is Stuart Boyd of Boston, who plans to ...
After a decade of planning, Norway’s Oseberg—the world’s best-preserved Viking ship—was carefully relocated to a new climate-controlled museum home.
BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP - At 4 p.m., the workday is over for the 1,500 or so craftsmen at the Viking Yachts boat works. The line of cars waiting to make a left out of the factory parking lot onto Route 9 ...
Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A building once a staple in the North Omaha community is getting a second chance thanks to one woman’s determination and help from an app. “This is the entrance to the ...
Bob and Bill Healey bought a small New Jersey-based boat company in 1964 creating Viking Yacht. Viking Yacht dedicates itself to the building semi-customized sport fishing and motor yachts ranging ...