{"id":12557,"date":"2021-11-07T09:12:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12557"},"modified":"2021-11-07T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T16:14:44","slug":"this-aint-your-film-set-cgi-viking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12557","title":{"rendered":"This Ain’t Your Film Set-CGI Viking Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sea Stallion rowed in calm water (Thilde Kold Holdt).<\/p><\/div>\n

The best description I have ever read of sailing a long ship. I love it when people reconstitute old tech that still works \u2014 like the traditional Polynesian canoe that sailed from Tahiti to Hawaii and back in the 1970s, all without a compass, radio, or modern maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is Danish writer Thilde Kold Holdt’s description of rejoining her “crew” for the first trip of the season aboard a traditional long ship, the Sea Stallion<\/em><\/a>: “We\u2019re 65 people on a ship no larger than a bus.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Old habits must be remembered:<\/p>\n

With the sail up, and not currently on duty, I\u2019m no longer tied to my rowing seat, so I crash atop the oars, forgetting, as I do every year, not to lean against the thick shrouds, those enormous tarred ropes which hold up the mast. My long braid gets stuck to the tar and I have to wrench it off. I\u2019m pretty sure this is why Vikings braided their beards.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video included might remind you of the History Channel Vikings<\/em> series, but this is not a CGI ship or a movie set, but the real deal, creaking and leaking and going forth.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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