A replica Viking ship made of 15 million ice-cream sticks is to be launched in Amsterdam on Tuesday.

The Viking longship, which is 15 meters (about 49 feet) long and took Robert McDonald and two volunteers two years to build.

McDonald will launch the ship from the 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.

"It's a dream come true. It's truly worth all the hard work," McDonald said Monday of the painstaking two-year effort to assemble the birchwood sticks into a vessel. "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."