LELYSTAD, Netherlands (Reuters) - A Viking ship made from
ice-cream sticks set sail across the Netherlands' IJsselmeer lake
on Friday and its stuntman builder hopes to cross the Atlantic
later.
The 15-metre (50-foot) Thor was made from 15 million recycled
ice-cream sticks glued together by U.S.-born Robert McDonald, his
son and more than 5,000 children.
"Pick up your ice-cream stick, send them to me and I will put them
to use," McDonald, 48, said on radio, hoping to auction the ship
later and donate the proceeds to charity.
"Kids from all over the world started mailing them to me. I got
enough sticks to build three of those ships," said McDonald.
McDonald, badly injured as a child in a gas explosion that killed
the rest of his family, is still looking for donations to finance
his Atlantic voyage, the proceeds of which will go to children in
hospitals and in disaster zones. He has worked as a stuntman in 400
films.
He needs a crew daring enough to repeat the ancient Viking route to
North America via Iceland and Greenland.
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