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 ...

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 ...

Join me as I take on the challenge of building a full Viking longship from the ground up! From shaping the hull to adding the ...

MISSION BAYMISSION BAY — 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 ...

Building Viking shields is not the thing most teens spend their time on, but for one Aurora high school student the work was a perfect fit. For his Eagle Scout project, West Aurora High School senior ...

A pew from a Darlington church is going to become part of a Viking ship, travelling out to Lindisfarne to combine the two ...

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 ...

The Viking Honir in Basel was one of nine river ships Viking welcomed into its fleet on Oct. 21, in ceremonies across six ...

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Viking Yachts has a proven formula for expanding its fleet by building a completely new model within a model. The New Gretna, New Jersey, boatbuilder’s latest example is its 54 Sport Tower, a model ...