Early sea trials in the North Sea were brutal, resulting in a catastrophic mast failure and the shearing of all the hull's lowest nails for several meters due to excessive flexibility. This near-fatal weakness forced the team into a costly, year-long rebuild to strengthen the ship with a new keelson and 400 stronger handforged nails, mirroring the Vikings' own process of trial-and-error boat building as revealed by experimental archaeology and the discovery of the Skuldelev ships.
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