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Enterprise 1930 America's Cup J Yacht 25" Wood Model Boat Assembled
$ 100.28
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Description
This high quality, highly detailed, America's Cup Collection, U.S. Defender 1930, yacht model is brand new, fully assembled and ready for display (not a kit).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.
Shipped with the masts and sails folded down, assembles in minutes (a moderate skill level is required). All the sails are made of cloth and are adjustable with working lines.
The Enterprise Yacht model from a scratch built plank on
bulkhead
by skillful and creative master craftsmen. Strip by strip of mahogany and teak were put together. It was built according to scale through original plans, pictures, and drawings.
Only high-quality wood and metal were used to bu