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 ...

Veterans have built a 30ft (9m) replica Viking longboat in a long-running project to boost their mental health. More than 100 former servicemen and women have helped to construct Stormbird at a ...

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 ...

Justin Anderson, from the left, Jaz Sipila, Oliver Swenson and John Finkle work on various features for a traditional, 27-foot-long Scandinavian rowing boat June 1. The vessel is modeled after a ...

Viking's Valhalla 55 recognized for innovation, in-house design and American-made quality. The post Valhalla 55 Sport Yacht ...

BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP - At 4 p.m., the workday is over for the 1,500 or so craftsmen at the Viking Yachts boat works. The line of cars waiting to make a left out of the factory parking lot onto Route 9 ...

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