Product Description
This high quality, highly detailed, America's Cup Collection, U.S. Defender Enterprise 1930 yacht model is fully assembled and ready for display (not a kit) and it measures 20" overall length x 27" height x 4" width.
Shipped with the masts, rigging and sails folded down separate from the hull, assembles in minutes, rigging attaches with hooks, no knot tying (a moderate skill level is required). You just need to insert the mast in it's designated hole and attach the brass rigging hooks as shown in the pictures. All the sails are made of cloth with detailed stitching.
The Enterprise Yacht model is scratched built plank on bulkhead by skillful and creative master craftsmen. Strip by strip of rare, high quality wood were put together. The hull is sanded smooth and painted white with a red cove stripe and blue bottom.
Only high quality wood and metal were used to build the model, absolutely no plastic parts. This beautiful model is resting on a painted solid wooden stand with metal supports. To enhanced value and recognition, a metal name plate embedded with “Enterprise” is provided.
The Enterprise was designed by Starling Burgess & Nat Herreshoff. Together, they created the largest and fastest racing machine ever seen.
This great and gorgeous J-boat was eighty feet long at the water line and sported a heavy keel with two centerboards. Her great 162-foot mast tapered from one and one-half feet at the base to nine inches at the top. It was made of two hollow tubes of aluminum and was supported by a large array of stays and rigging. Below deck she had two dozen winches for handling lines.
Enterprise made short work of the other three would-be defenders of the Cup and was chosen to take on Shamrock V off Newport, Rhode Island. There, in September 1930, she went on to win a clean sweep of four races, maintaining the 80 year record of uninterrupted possession of Americas Cup.
This model measures 20" long from front to rear. It's a fabulous Yacht that will be a conversation piece for any room or office.
Highlights about this America's Cup model:
- 100% hand built from scratch using “plank on frame” construction method
- Included with this modern style yacht model is a wood base with a metal name plate
- Size: 20" overall length x 27" height x 4" width
- Condition: New Excellent (fully assembled)
- Hundreds of hours where required to finish this model
- Completed model contains thousands of details created by skillful master craftsmen
- Made of finest rare, high quality wood
- Brass fittings and ornaments constitute the excellence of this model
- This model went through a demanding quality control process before leaving the workshop
Many More America's Cup Yacht Wooden Model Sailboats Are Available.