I have always wanted to make a Viking style boat. The shape is just cool. I belong to a user group called viking-ship-plans on Yahoo groups and one of the members had taking drawings from a Viking canoe (called a faering) that was recovered with the Gokstad ship (http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/britannia/maldon/gokstad.html), interpreted them and designed a 24 foot version using Carlson Design's free boat design program Hulls (www.carlsondesign.com). I took his design, and shrunk it to 16 feet long, 44 inches wide so I could build out of 4x8 sheets of plywood.