This fine-looking vessel has a ketch cutter rig (to split the total sail area into relatively small, easier-to-handle sections), a deep long keel, and a clipper style bow. Length overall 32" height 31" .
This elegant display yacht, with her large gaff cutter rig and lifting keel, is reminiscent of early 20th century cabin cruisers from areas like the Norfolk Broads. She has lots of detail - skylights, mooring tackle etc - for a model of this price. Her dimensions are 24" on deck, 36" overall, and 34'' tall. Fully assembled, but some simple rigging required.
Gaff-rigged for quick handling in shoal waters, with mizzen stepped right aft for manoeuvrability, two foresails and spritsails for the speed to chase fast- swimming thon or tunny, and long arcing booms for handling and spreading nets. A characteristic is the trestled working rack to keep the broad main deck clear for rapid processing of catches to the fish-hold below. Length 16", beam 3.5" and height is 24".
Gaff-rigged with high freeboard, broad beam and deep-riding stern - a hard-working boat typical of designs on both sides of the Channel towards the end of the Nineteenth century. Highly detailed deck features, with fully modelled standing and running rigging. Length 24", beam 5.5", height 23".
Thames Sailing Barges were highly-developed working craft that could carry cargoes of up to 250 tons (equivalent to more than six articulated lorries!) with a crew of just two men. In their heyday, the late 19th century, there were over 8,000 plying England's east coast rivers and ports, carrying everything from coal to livestock. The spritsail rig was easy to handle shorthanded and amazingly, could still be used effectively even with an entire haystack towering 20 feet above deck (the crewman would stand on top, shouting instructions to the Captain, who for obvious reasons could not see a thing!). Their flat bottomed-hulls gave great stability and made it easy to "take the mud" when the tide was out. Their efficiency was such that engines, road and rail could not beat them for transporting bulky, non-urgent items until well into the 1950's - making them amongst the very last of commercial sailing boats in the UK. Our larger model, based on a craftsman-built replica, is 27" long and 24" tall.
Double-ended open sailing boat, fast and easy to manouevre, originally used for whaling and later adopted by the Navy for general-purpose use and training. Overall length 32", height 31.5", beam 9".
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