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Columbia 24"

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Columbia 24" Description

  • Sold Fully Assembled - compare this yacht to other sellers.  Just pull this model ship out of the box and display, there is no rigging to tie or mast to assemble.
  • 24" H x 5" W x 275quot; L (1:58 scale)
  • Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull of the ship model one at a time).
  • Built with rare, high quality woods.
  • Hand painted the actual colors of Columbia yacht
  • Fabric sails with detailed stitching
  • No plastic parts.
  • 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.
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Columbia 24" History

    Columbia was chosen to represent the New York Yacht Club in the America's Cup challenge race of 1899. Designed by Nathan Herreshoff, she played a major role in the evolution of racing yachts. The Columbia was much more than just a fast sloop; she was pure racing machine. She possessed a deep, heavy keel weighted with 90 tons of ballast to stabilize her hull, undercut to reduce her drag in the water. Her bow and stern sloped sharply upwards to gain water line length (and thus speed) when she was heeled over. She employed many weight-saving innovations in her hull structure. In 1899, she accepted the challenge of Sir Thomas Lipton who was determined to retake the cup for Britain. She took on the Shamrock, a long, lean beauty with a fearsome reputation for speed. Under gale conditions, Columbia proved her mettle to win three straight races by huge margins. She repeated her victory against Shamrock II in 1901.


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