Overall Bluenose dimensions: 32" L x 5" W x 25" H (1:53 scale)
Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank of wood is added to the hull of the ship model one at a time).
Fabric sails with detailed stitching
To offer this sailboat model at a reasonable price, and to ensure no damage during shipping this model sailboat requires minor assembly. The sails and rigging are all completed.. One just needs to insert the mast into the designated hole on the deck and clip the hooks to the deck. Pictured instructions with numbers on the hooks allow anyone to easily assemble this sailboat model in less than 4 minutes
There is no rigging to tie or tighten
To build this model ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual yacht.
Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921, as both a working cod-fishing schooner and a racing ship. This was in response to a Nova Scotian ship's defeat in a race for working schooners established by the Halifax Herald newspaper in 1920. After a season fishing on the Grand Banks, Bluenose defeated the ship Elsie from Gloucester, Massachusetts, returning the trophy to Nova Scotia. During the next 17 years of racing no challenger, American or Canadian, could wrest the trophy from her.