Vigilant 35" Limited

Overall dimensions: 35" H x 4" W x 32" L (1:48 scale)

This newly designed, Limited Edition, museum-quality, scale replica Vigilant 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 50 will ever be made. Accurate in almost every detail to the original Vigilant sail boat, this Vigilant 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 America flag  
-  Additional deck planks have been added and stained to match the actual Vigilant 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 Vigilant America's Cup sailboat
-  The hull is meticulously painted the actual colors of the original Vigilant 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 Vigilant 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 Vigilant sail boat.

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

VIGILANT
1893
USA

Yacht Club: New York Yacht Club, New York, USA
Victorious defender of the eighth America's Cup (1893). Winner over Valkyrie II (GBR).

Owner: Syndicate led by C. Oliver Iselin, and formed by Edwin D. Morgan, Augustus Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Charles R. Flint, Chester W. Chapin, George R. Clark, Henry Astor Carey, Dr. Barton Hopkins, E.M. Fulton, Jr. and Adrian Iselin.

Centerboard sloop
Length and sail area rule
Rating: 96.78

Designer: Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

Builder: Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
Sailmaker: Herreshoff

Year of building: 1893
Launched: June 14th, 1893

Skipper: Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
Captain: William Hansen
Afterguard: Edward A. Willard, Herbert C. Leeds, Newberry Thorne, Woodbury Kane, W. Butler Duncan, Jr. and Captain Norman Terry.

Data:

Construction -

Construction: all metal
Frames: Steel
Its under-water body was of Tobin bronze. Its top strakes were of steel.
Centerboard: Tobin bronze made.

Dimensions -

L.O.A.: 38.50 m
L.W.L.: 25.90 m
Beam: 7.92 m
Draft: 3.96 m, centerboard up
Displacement: 138 tons
Centerboard weight: 7.7 tons
Sail area: 1014.50 m2
Mast: 26.67 m
Boom: 29.60 m
Bowsprit: 9.80 m
Topmast: 17.90 m