Gretel 35" Limited

 Overall dimensions: 35" H x 4" W x 27" L (1:17 scale)

This newly designed, Limited Edition, museum-quality, scale replica Gretel 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 Gretel sail boat, this Gretel 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.  This scale Limited Edition Sailboat replica offers higher quality and accuracy than any other sailboat model available such as: 

-  Additional and higher-quality deck details
-  Authentic cloth British flag  
-  Additional deck planks have been added and stained to match the actual Gretel sailboat
-  Additional and higher-quality solid brass metal railings and cleats have been added
-  Highest quality, 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 Gretel America's Cup sailboat
-  The hull is meticulously painted the actual colors of the original Gretel 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 Gretel 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 Gretel sail boat.

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

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 Gretel yacht. 

 Gretel is the name of a 12-metre yacht that competed in the 1962 America's Cup