A Dutch captain, his son and thousands of school children took years to make a Viking Ship. The boat is now ready to set off on its transatlantic maiden voyage. But what makes it so special, is that it is made entirely out of ice cream sticks. Let's have a look...

Four years in the making, a replica Viking ship finally sets sail. But this is no ordinary reproduction. It's made out of 15 million recycled ice-cream sticks.

The boat's captain Robert McDonald and his son enlisted the help of over 5000 Dutch schoolchildren to glue the ice-cream sticks together and build the boat, which McDonald calls the world's biggest recycled object.

McDonald has worked as a stuntman in over 400 films.
And although the boat "Thor" has already undergone a sea trial, McDonald has now embarked on what might be his greatest test: sailing the 15 metre long boat from the Netherlands to London on the first leg of an
Atlantic adventure. But the crew are at the mercy of the elements.

[Robert McDonald, Thor Captain]:
"We already have a place reserved for us at Canary Wharf and we gonna be there in my estimate between the 11th and the 13th, roughly. Roughly, it's up to the wind."

After London, McDonald and his crew hope to follow in the ancient wake of the Vikings, crossing the Atlantic to North America via Iceland and Greenland. The boat will then be auctioned to raise money for handicapped children.

But Thor's crew have already hit their first glitch: on the way to London they have to repair the radar and radio which broke down before they even left Dutch coastal waters.