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Defender 20"

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Defender 20" Description

  • Overall dimensions 20" H x 2" W x 17" L (1:74 scale)
  • This is a pre assembled model. Models are shipped with the sails unassembled. All rigging, lines and stays have brass hooks attached, which easily hook into eyelets on mast, boom, sprit or deck. Assembly takes less than 5 minutes
  • Detailed instructions with pictures included for assembly
  • This Defender Americas Cup sailboat has plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull of the ship model one at a time).
  • Our Defender wooden sailboat is built with rare, high quality woods.
  • This model sailboat yacht is hand painted the actual colors of the Defender yacht.
  • 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 Defender yacht.
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Defender 20" History


    Defender was the 1895 America's Cup defender.

    Design

    Defender was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in 1895. It was Herreshoff's second victorious America's Cup defender design.

    Defender was a sloop with all-metal construction: steel, aluminum, and manganese bronze. It was owned by William Kissam Vanderbilt, Edwin D. Morgan and C. Oliver Iselin, and skippered by Henry C. Haff.

    Career

    Defender defeated the New York Yacht Club's Vigilant then went on to defend the cup against British keel cutter Valkyrie III. Following the contest, Defender was towed to New Rochelle where it remained for another four years without sailing. It was rebuilt to race trials against the 1899 America's Cup defense candidate, Columbia. Defender was broken up in 1901.

    Specifications

        * Overall length: 37.5m
        * Length at water line: 27.17m
        * Beam (width): 7.03m
        * Draft: 5.81m
        * Displacement: 151.5 tonnes
        * Sail area: 1134.3 m2
     


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