Wednesday, 17th August 2005 (4255 views)

A gold stick was added to a fully functioning Viking ship made entirely of ice-cream sticks in the Netherlands.

The 15 millionth stick that Rob McDonald and his son added to the unusual boat was made of gold.

This adds an element of glitter to the otherwise wooden boat that took 2.2 tons of glue and 15 million birch wood ice cream sticks to build.

Weighing 13 tonnes, the 45-foot ship was successfully launched and Mr McDonald intends to sail around the world in it.

He hopes his achievement will encourage young children to follow their dreams: "If they can dream it, they can do it," he declared.

McDonald has certainly set the gold standard for mammoth achievements and is looking to get recognised by the Guinness Book of Records.


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