Re: [Mid] Building Drakkar..

Milady Caitlyn,
Your photo may not show the scale of the Drakkar very well, or it may be of
a smallish vessel. The typical raiding vessel was BIG, especially for the
time.
In the rain, you bail. In a storm, you bail faster.
Gundo
Andrew J. Stanbarger
Gundobad@provide.net

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> From: Kathleen and Aaron Dehring <dehring@iserv.net>
> To: sca-middle@dnaco.net
> Subject: Re: [Mid] Building Drakkar..
> Date: Sunday, January 04, 1998 8:53 AM
>
> I have a really dumb question, about long boats, In my reading the
Vikings
> would appropriate (steal ) even live stock. with the shallowness of a
> longboat ( I am looking at a photo of a reconstructed one) They do not
look
> that deep. Yet the author claims even horses where taken. would the whole
> thing sink? I mean the crew , the plunder, and livestock? also the whole
> works looks open so what did you do in a storm or rain?
>
> Caitlyn of Green Castle
> who will ask darn near any thing.
>
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> > From: Ellen Murtland <pix@fortwayne.infi.net>
> > To: sca-middle@dnaco.net
> > Subject: Re: [Mid] Building Drakkar..
> > Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 12:35 AM
> >
> > > Never too late....Heather did not mention that my apprentice Lady
Thora
> > > Runnakennandi has a 22footer in Shadowed Star's yards.......
> > > Meistari Hroar Stormgengr
> > > From: freyja1@juno.com (Timothy A Whitcomb)
> >
> > That's because I didn't know!!!
> > Think they'll let us enter it in the Three Rivers Festival Raft Race?
> > We can use Nerf crossbows for trebuchets to sink the other rafts, and
> > water-balloon slingshots. Or did longships not have weaponry? If not,
I
> > humbly (hah!) propose a galleon.
> > Heather of Shadowed Stars, feelin' a little light-headed
> > From: Ellen Murtland <pix@fortwayne.infi.net>
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