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Defender 20"

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Total Dims: 20" L x 2" W x 17" H

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Features: Defender 20"

Overall dimensions 20" H x 2" W x 17" L (1:74 scale)

Detailed instructions with pictures included for assembly

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.

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.

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History: Defender 20"

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