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 ...
Images of the sleek keels, elegant planks, and dragon-headed prows of Viking longships have been reproduced countless times ...
The Aquavit Terrace and aft infinity pool on Viking ocean ships. Photo Credit: Viking "If you've seen one, you've seen them all." More than once, Viking founder and CEO Torstein Hagen has said this ...
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 ...
The Friends of the Viking Ship bought a property in downtown Geneva so the organization could build a museum to house the longship. Michael Olesen, a director for the nonprofit Friends and chairman of ...
A Swedish archaeologist has sailed a replica Viking boat for 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers), which helped him to identify what he says are four previously unknown harbors along the coast of Norway ...