Visitors to Bowman Bay yesterday stumbled onto a Viking village … or so it seemed, as Anacortes and Bellingham residents worked with a production crew from The Discovery Channel on a documentary about Viking boats. Included among those working on the documentary were Anacortes craftsmen Jay Smith (center in photo) and Paul Thorne. Smith has been filmed over the course of a few weeks as he built a 21-foot Viking Faering boat. Blacksmith Thorne forged tools used by Smith in the boat construction. Pictured here are Smith and a couple of friends, removing the boat’s mast and sail so they could row around the bay. Meanwhile, Thorne observed cast and crew as filming took place a few hundred yards away in a Viking camp populated by a group from Whatcom County. The documentary will be aired in September. See more photos in Activities section under Viking boat.