[datenhorst]

My immediate thought was some sort of Viking LARP that went wrong

[vidarh]

There's been a number of reconstructions of viking ships[1], and some of them like e.g. this one [2] have been sailed, so that would have been an amusing possibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_ship_replica

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draken_Harald_H%C3%A5rfagre