A replica Viking ship made of 15 million ice cream sticks was launched in Amsterdam on Tuesday by a former Hollywood stuntman who hopes eventually to sail it across the Atlantic. The 15-meter ship, which took Robert McDonald two years to build, is to be launched in Amsterdam harbor with a crew of around 25 in a bid to set a world record for the largest sailing ship made of ice cream sticks.

The Viking longship, equipped with oars and a mast, is built with sticks of birch-wood glued together painstakingly by McDonald and two volunteers in a Dutch workshop. It is to be put through its paces for around 90 minutes Tuesday. “It’s a dream come true. It’s truly worth all the hard work,” McDonald said Monday. “I never want to look at glue again. I don’t think I will be in a hurry to look at ice cream sticks again,” said the 45-year-old from Jacksonville, Florida.