In 1993, archeologists recovered most of a buried wooden boat near Gislinge, on the island of Sjælland in Denmark. The 7.7meter boat was dated to the year 1130 AD.

The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, reconstructed the Gislinge Boat. In 2015, the Museum released the working drawings to the public, launching the Gislinge Boat Open Source Project.

In 2020, Chesapeake Light Craft will build a computercut "stitchandglue" interpretation of the Gislinge Boat. By creating a precut marine plywood kit, we hope to make construction of replicas of this ancient Scandinavian boat accessible to amateur builders and organizations.

This timelapse features a 33% scale model of the Gislinge Boat. The model was built to test the assembly sequence. The boat will measure 25'3" long, or 7.7m when we build it in summer 2020.

Jay Hockenberry: CAD/CAM engineering and boatbuilding
Andrew Schroerer: Boatbuilding

Our thanks to the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark

For more information (coming soon): clcboats.com/gislinge