[Leica] Viking longboat (was Boats and Bows)

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Barney Quinn writes:

Boats and Bows. taken at the Chesapeake Bay Marine Museum. The boat

which looks like a reproduction of a viking long boat is exactly that.


http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Viking+Long+Boat.jpg.html


Comments and Criticisms Welcome.


Barney

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Your nice boat picture jogged my memory. Here is a picture of a real Viking
longboat dredged from my 30 year old files. Well, not an original longboat,
but one that was made in Norway and sailed to North America to celebrate the
anniversary of Lief Ericsson's voyage. The boat was constructed using
original materials and techniques then sailed from Norway to Iceland, to
Greenland, and then to Newfoundland, site of the first (and only) Viking
colony in North America. From Newfoundland the crew sailed south along the
Atlantic coast as far as New York retracing the original voyage of
exploration. They even sailed a considerable distance up the Hudson River.

There is a local myth that the Hudson was the Vineland referred to in the
Viking sagas.  A profuse growth of wild grapes adorns both shores. Indeed
the first commercial vineyard in the US was established only a couple of
hundred yards from where I took this picture.  The camera was a Leica IIIc
with a 90 mm Leica/Wollensak lens.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Viking+long+boat.jpg.html

Larry Z