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Volunteer 35" Limited

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Volunteer 35" Limited Description

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

This newly designed, Limited Edition, museum-quality, scale replica Volunteer 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 Volunteer sail boat, this Volunteer 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

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

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

More America's Cup Limited Edition Sailboat Models to choose from:

Endeavour
Shamrock
Enterprise
Defender
Atlanta
Reliance
Resolute
Gretel
Ranger
Intrepid
Rainbow
Weatherly
Sovereign
Valkyrie
Columbia
Constellation
Endeavour 2
Vigilant


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 Volunteer yacht. Visit our Frequently Asked Questions or call with questions.


Volunteer 35" Limited History

    "Volunteer" was the victorious American defender of the seventh America's Cup race in 1887 against Scottish challenger "Thistle".

    Design

    "Volunteer," a centerboard compromise sloop, was designed by Edward Burgess and built by Pusey & Jones Shipbuilding Company at Wilmington, Delaware in 1887 for owner General Charles J. Paine of the New York Yacht Club.

    "Volunteer" easily beat the 1886 America's Cup defender "Mayflower" during the trials, and won both Cup races on September 27 and 30, 1887, against "Thistle." It was skippered by Captain Hank Haff with the assistance of Captains Terry, Berry and L. Jeffreys.

    Soon after the Cup races, "Volunteer" was bought by John Malcolm Forbes (who also owned "Puritan") and was altered as a schooner in 1891. It was broken up at a New York junkyard in 1910.

    Specifications

    Overall length: 32.91 m
    Length at water line: 26.10 m
    Beam (width): 7.06 m
    Draft: 3.04 m
    Displacement: 130 tons
    Sail area: 834.40m2


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