Scale 1:10. This model of the Gokstad faering (4-oared boat) was made by Captain M.E. Musson (Shaw, Saville & Albion Ltd) in 1976-77. It is based upon plans and photographs taken from the recovered original by A. E. Christiansen, Oslo. The original boat was one of three small boats discovered with the 9th Century Gokstad ship in a viking burial mound in Norway. The original can be on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.
Like the original, (which was 21' 4'' long), this 1:10 scale model is clinker-built with six overlapping planks; keel, stem and stern posts; an internal framing consisting of five transverse frames; three thwarts; and two rowlocks on either gunwale. It has four oars, secured to the rowlocks, as well as a small side rudder and tiller secured to the starboard side at the stern onto a rudder boss.

These scandinavian clinker built vessels share many of the same construction techniques as traditional small craft of the British Isles, such as the Shetland Yole (see SLR1298).

During the second half of 1972, the National Maritime Museum undertook an experimental archaeology project to build and sail a full-sized replica of the Gokstad faering. The results of this project are documented in the National Maritime Museum Monograph No. 11 'The Building and Trials of the Replica of an Ancient Boat: The Gokstad Faering' 1974.