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23" H x 4" W x 20" L (1:56 scale)
Built with rare, high quality woods.
Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull of the ship model one at a time)
Hand painted the actual colors of the Puritan yacht
Fabric sails with detailed stitchingNo 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
She was built at the George Lawley & Son yard in Boston, Massachusetts and launched May 26, 1885.
Puritan was an early combination of American and English designs with some of the depth of an cutter but beam and power of a sloop. It was built and skippered by John Malcom Forbes.
Career
She defeated the New York club's Priscilla then went on to defend the cup against Genesta, a traditional cutter. Immediately following the contest, they began work on an improved version which would be called the Mayflower.
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