Did ya know it takes about 15 million ice cream sticks to make a viking ship? Rob McDonald, former Hollywood stuntman, has lead a project to do just that which has involved over 5,000 school kids. It’s taken a few years but this week the ship, christened Thor, was launched on IJsselmeer Lake in the Netherlands.

McDonald has declared the vessel seaworthy and plans a trans-Atlantic crossing in the fall. From the Scotsman:

McDonald, badly injured as a child in a gas explosion that killed the rest of his family, is still looking for donations to finance his Atlantic voyage, the proceeds of which will go to children in hospitals and in disaster zones. He has worked as a stuntman in 400 films.

He needs a crew daring enough to repeat the ancient Viking route to North America via Iceland and Greenland.

Check out the video and read more about it.

HT: Makezine

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