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1:20 scale wooden construction kit.This type of boat, from Northern Norway, dates from the 17th Century. As a fishing boat it saw its most popular days from the 18th Century until the appearance of engine-driven fishing boats. These boats were extremely efficient and seaworthy. They represent a ship...

1:15 scale wooden construction kit.Billing Boats B728 RS1 Colin Archer Sailing Lifeboat, Model Boat Kit Wood, Fittings is a scale model of the RS1 and was built in 1893 for the ‘Norwegian Society for Shipwreck Salvage’ at the Colin Archer shipyard in Rekkevig near Larvik, Norway. RS1 was later n...

1:65 scale wooden assembly kit.Requires wood glues and tools to complete.The kit of the model contains high-precision laser-cut board parts; wood and birch veneer; numerous pieces in wood, metal and brass; high-quality brass photo-engraving pieces; Sails handsewn and ready to be placed; cotton threa...

USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world’s oldest floating commissioned naval vessel. Note 1 Launched in 1797, Constitution was one of six...

Scale model of a Danish training ship. 1:50 scale Wooden hull 19.29"H 26.77"L 4.72"WThe Lilla Dan is a beautiful throwback to a bygone era; a 35-meter topsail schooner built in 1951 by J. Lauritzen as a training ship, she has been with the company ever since. Taken out of service as a training vesse...

Discover the Pen Duick, a wooden model of the legendary Eric Tabarly racing cutter. Saved from misery by Eric and his father when the former had only 7 years, the Pen Duick was the first of a series of boats with which Tabarly won many victories in various races. Guided by a detailed step by step in...

HISTORY OF A LEGENDARY SHIP: CUTTY SARK'S MODELDiscover the Cutty Sark, wooden model of this legendary ship -tea clipper class- of the XIXth Century. Built for the tea race and one of the fastest ships of its time, it is preserved as a museum vessel in the town of Greenwich, United Kingdom. Launched...

1:64 scale multimedia construction kitThe schooner Bluenose has a very special place in the history of navigation and yachting. Built to fish off the Newfoundland coast, the ship soon turned out to be such a fast sailer that she won all the great classical regattas along the USA's Eastern coast. She...

HISTORY OF THE RED DRAGON CHINESE JUNKDiscover the Red Dragon, a wooden model of this Chinese junk. Still in use in many parts of Southeast Asia, these boats were used for both war and for trade.The appearance of the junks is documented about 600 BC. The hull has no keel and has a short stern; its s...

This beautiful model is a traditional sailing ship used along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, India and East of Africa. Up to the 1960's Dhows made their commercial journeys from the Persian Gulf to East Africa using only sails as a means of propulsion. All pre cut wood , Traditional hollow hull...

1:20 scale multi media construction kit.The “Torborg" is a classical Norwegian rowing and sailing boat. This type of vessel is widely known in Norway and was used for many purposes.The original boat, dating from 1870, is owned by the Stavanger maritime Museum. This type of boat was used as a pilot...

The Artesania Latina Santa Maria wooden ship model accurately recreates the real life ship that, together with the Pinta and Nina, is famous the world over for its part in Columbus's discovery of the New World on 12th October, 1492. On Christmas Eve of that year it broke up off the coast of Haiti an...

1:50 scale laser cut wooden construction model. British Royal Navy research vessel HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771.Length: 890mm approxHeight: 730mm approxBeam: 178mm approxLevel: Advanced

1:72 scale Wooden hull boat assembly kit17.72"H 22.05"L 3.94"WGreat starter kit.1850-On the urging of the New York Yacht Club to build a fast sailing boat, George Steers creates plans for the America. The low black schooner is designed using the reversal of the codhead-and-mackerel style. 1851-Answe...

Billing Boats 1/25 Oseberg 720The Oseberg was found in Norway at Oseberg in Vestfold in 1903, resting on a bed of blue clay and covered with turf and stones. The Oseberg was built in the last half of the 800's and was buried roughly 50 years later. The ship is some 50 to 100 years older than similar...

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH FISHING BOAT LA PROVENÇALE 1/20Discover the wooden model of the Provençale, a traditional fishing boat of the French Riviera. With a typical Mediterranean line thanks to its two Latin sails, this boat used to be manufactured with the remains of the wood used for the construct...

1:75 scale Wooden hull assembly kit26.38"H 43.31"L 5.91"WSkill: ExpertCutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development ...

SpecificationsScale Size 1:75Measures 39.76" long x 7.87" wide x 35.43" tallSkill Level - Expert model builder: The well trained model builder will find many challenges and many hours of intense occupation with these large and impressive models. These sets require lots of dexterity and a perfect tec...

Features:Brass hardware such as eyebolts, stanchions, rings. and hinges Highly detailed brass bow (figurehead) and stern parts Detailed construction methods allow modeler to form the hull by attaching planking strakes to the false keel and frames.Modeler will want to file and sand the whole hull unt...