Sailing Models

Sailing models are the most sophisticated performance models. Designed to perform in actual conditions, these models are hand-carved, decked, and painted, rigged with natural fibers, and have handmade sails. They are beautiful models to see and exciting to watch as they heel to the breeze and climb to meet each wave, just like the real or vanished vessels they depict. Handling the sailing models is a true test of the miniature sailor's small boat seamanship, as wind and wave, shore, and other vessels make an interesting challenge of catching a fast-sailing model. Action photography is the finishing touch, allowing the sport of model sailing to be enjoyed by anyone, anywhere.

Robert and Rebecca

ca. 1890 barquentine ocean sailing model handmade of cedar, pine, mahogany, spruce, lignum vitae, brass, bronze, copper, lead, hemp, cotton, linen, epoxy, CA, resorcinol, varnish, marine alkyd enamel; features 12 sails, working sheets, halliards, braces, reefable lowers, housing topmasts, working centerboard, adjustable helm, opening hatch, LOA 64", approximate displacement 30#

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10" Norwegian Snaekka

Hand-carved pine wood sailing model with lug sail and mahogany rudder. This model was made in 1978; photo 2011
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Pram Ketch

Handmade wooden sailing vessel model
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Elephant hermaphrodite brig

Sailing model. Yo made an elephant while still a child, carving a spruce firewood log with a 1" butt chisel and hand-sewing sails from Mother's bedsheets (Mother was not pleased). Photo taken in 2011.
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Mary Catharine

1812 Great Lakes U.S. Navy topsail galley schooner, fully rigged, handmade ship sailing model. Features: removable light sails, mainsail reefpoints, opening hatch, adjustable rudder, lead keel
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Hazel MacHardy

Hand-built barquentine sailing model.
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Mark A. McClellan

Knockabout Banks Dory Schooner d'apres McManus, ca. 1906, under full sail in Bass Harbor.
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Coaster

Handmade schooner sailing model. One-piece hull, hand-sewn sails, adjustable rudder, detachable ballast keel.
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Friendship Sloop

Handmade cedar-wood traditional gaff-rigged sloop sailing model under sail in Penobscot Bay, Maine.
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Antique Hand-carved Schooner

Antique hand-carved schooner yacht model, restored and re-rigged by Flaming Fish.
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Santa Maria Columbus

Discovery ship sailing model. hand-carved cedar hull, hand-made rigging, hand-sewn sails. launched on Columbus Day 2011.
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