Constellation 35" Limited

Overall dimensions: 35" H x 4" W x 27" L (1:30  scale)

This newly designed, Limited Edition, museum-quality, scale replica Constellation sailboat is offered exclusively by Handcrafted Model Ships. This sail boat includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris, as only 100 will ever be made. Accurate in almost every detail to the original Constellation sail boat, this Constellation sailboat offers features not available by other sellers, and has many upgrades over all other sailboat models available.

This is a pre assembled model. Models are shipped with the sails unassembled. All rigging, lines, and stays have brass hooks attached. They easily hook into eyelets on mast, boom, sprit, or deck. Pictured instructions with numbers on the hooks allow anyone to easily assemble this sailboat model in less than 4 minutes. This allows us to offer the model at a reasonable price. If assembled, the shipping cost alone would increase the cost by an additional $100

-  Authentic cloth British flag  
-  Deck planks that match the actual Constellation sailboat
-  High-quality solid brass metal railings and cleats
-  Accurately scaled solid metal ship wheel
-  Accurately detailed structures on the deck including windows
-  A scale tied-down lifeboat on the stern of the deck, to mimic the actual Constellation America's Cup sailboat
-  The hull is meticulously painted the actual colors of the original Constellation America's Cup sailboat.  Look closely on the hull and you can see the individual planks and wood grain
-  Highest-quality sails and additional rigging over all other models:  

The sails are slightly starched to hold their shape and a higher quality and higher thread-count material is used, similar to that of the actual Constellation sailboat at the time it sailed.  We offer three unique sail materials that are matched to the different eras of model yachts we offer.  Also, additional rigging lines have been added to be more true to the actual Constellation sail boat.

Our Constellation model sailboat is built with rare, high quality woods. Hand painted the actual colors of Constellation America's Cup sailboat. Constellation America's Cup sailboat model has fabric sails with detailed stitching.

CONSTELLATION won in 1964. She was a quite elegant all-round boat, which was selected as Cup Defender over the large and powerful AMERICAN EAGLE, which was only superior in heavy weather. This should have been a tip off to the future but the true significance of having to design the smallest possible 12-Metre for Newport conditions was not generally appreciated until Australia II lifted the Cup in 1983. The reason 12-Metres form an exception to the axiom "design big" is the idiosyncrasy of the rule, particularly the prescription of increased displacement with length.