It took the Viking Ship Museum's boatyard four years to reconstruct the Viking ship Skuldelev 2. The traffic conditions of the Viking period cannot be reshaped that easily. Nowadays intensive traffic with big and fast ships supply a totally different frame and necessities in terms of navigation and safety.
Therefore the Viking Ship Museum has contacted FURUNO DANMARK AS in order to get assistance for the equipment of the Sea Stallion from Glendalough with electronic instruments. It is considered necessary that the crew's 65 men and women can attend the long and exhausting voyage over the North Sea to Dublin without worrying.
Carl Erik Pedersen from FURUNO DANMARK AS says it was the very enticing and exciting story about the Sea Stallion from Glendalough as well as the museum's scientific seriosity when translating the project into action which made FURUNO set up a complete navigation system including SART and EPIRB from McMurdo for the ship.
In return FURUNO DANMARK AS may use the Viking Ship Museum's inspiring facilities for housing meetings and seminars for clients and sales personnel. 'During the next two years our customers can look forward to some different meetings, which include an introduction to the Viking time and where they cannot be safe from finding themselves among the crew of a Viking ship on Roskilde Fjord', says Carl Erik Pedersen.
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough has just returned from a one month training-voyage to Tønsberg in Norway. This journey confirmed that sailing at night and in fog in the busy fairways of today is a responsible undertaking
only when there are proper navigation instruments on board, for example a sea chart plotter, radar and AIS. This applies not the least to an open vessel with 65 (wo)men aboard. On the other hand the surprise must have been considerable on board those cargo ships that received a message on their AIS monitor reporting the approach of a Viking ship with 65 people on board.
FURUNO is one of the Joint Adventure partners of the Sea Stallion. Here you find information about cooperation partners and here details about the Joint Adventure programme.
