Shamrock 35" Limited

Overall dimensions: 35" H x 4" W x 27" L (1:53 scale)

This newly designed, Limited Edition, museum-quality, scale replica Shamrock 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 Shamrock sail boat, this Shamrock 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 Limited Edition scale model sailboat replica has unique and upgraded features over any other sailboat model:  

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

Our Shamrock model sailboat is built with rare, high quality woods. Hand painted the actual colors of the Shamrock America's Cup sailboat. Shamrock 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 Shamrock yacht. 

1899
J-Class
Great Britain

Yacht club: Royal Ulster Yacht Club, Ireland
Unsuccessful challenger for the 1899 America's Cup

Owner: Sir Thomas Lipton

Rating: 101.092 and102.565

Designer: William Fife III, Jr.

Builder: J. Thorneycroft & Co, at Millwall on the Thames near London, England
Sailmaker: Ratsey, Cowes

Year of building: 1897-98
Launched: June 24, 1899

Skipper: Captain Archibald "Archie" Hogarth and his assistant, Captain Robert "Bob" Wringe
Afterguard: Jesse Connell and Captain Ben Parker

Data

Construction: Composite metal
Frames: Steel
Hull below waterline: Manganese bronze plating
Topsides: Aluminum Alloy plating
Deck: Pine
Mast and boom: Steel welded

Dimensions

Length overall (LOA): 38.86m
Length waterline (LWL): 25.12m
Beam: 7.46m
Draft: 6.15m
Displacement: 156.9 tonnes
Tonnage: 135 tonnes
Sail area: 1214.30m2
Mast: 29.56m
Boom: 32.61m
Bowsprit: 8.60m
Topmast: 18.90m