Stars and Stripes 14"

Attach Sails and this Model Fishing Boat is Ready for Immediate Display 

Prepare to harvest the fruit of the sea with this adorable fishing boat model. Whether your catch is fish, crab, shrimp or lobster, you’re sure to come home with a full catch aboard this model fishing boat. A wonderful piece of nautical décor for any beach house, sunroom or office, the fine craftsmanship and excellent features of this model fishing boat make it impressive for display to friends and family. 

14" Long x 4" Wide x 12" High

• Suits any room or décor with clean lines and simple colors
• Quality construction of solid wooden parts
• Amazing Details, in these fishing boat models include such features as:
  • Fishing nets, lines and crab pots or lobster traps
  • Real cloth sails and flags
  • Expansive rigging with up to a dozen deadeyes
  • Individual deck planks visible
  • Detailed pilothouse and deckhouses
  • Metal railings, mast antennae, anchor chains and propellers
  • Barrels, buckets, life preservers, rubber bumper tires, lifeboat, deck cleats, rope coils and other nautical items about the decks
• Sturdy wooden base attached to these model fishing boats
• Pre-assembled, simply attach the masts and display
  • Ready to display in less than five minutes
  • Separate pre-assembled hull and sails ensure safe shipping and lower cost
  • Insert mast in designated hole and clip brass rigging hooks as shown in illustrations
  • Sails and rigging already complete

The type of open fishing boat known as a coble developed on the North East coast of England. The southern-most examples occur around Hull (although Cooke drew examples at Yarmouth, see his Shipping and Craft series of drawings of 1829); the type extends to Berwick-upon-Tweed on the Scottish border.
The distinctive shape of the boat — flat-bottomed and high-bowed — arose to cope with the particular conditions prevalent in this area. Flat bottoms allowed launching from and landing upon shallow, sandy beaches; an advantage in this part of the coast where the wide bays and inlets provided little shelter from stormy weather. However, fishermen required high bows to sail in the dangerous North Sea and in particular to launch into the surf and to land on the beaches. The design contains relics of Norse influence, though in the main it shows Dutch origin.

A Scottish version of the coble, much shallower and beamier than the English type, serves for salmon-fishing off beaches near Arbroath and Montrose in Angus. These cobles have a less refined construction than their southern counterparts. Ghillies employ a smaller, better-built version for fly fishing on Scottish rivers.
Local boat-builders constructed the clinker-built cobles locally as required, without the use of plans. The craftsmanship on many boats gave them a long working life. They had a reputation as dangerous to sail for an inexperienced crew, but in the hands of experts could move both safely and speedily.
Today, surviving cobles generally use diesel engines, removing the need for the distinctively shaped 'lug' sail. In a further concession to comfort, a tarpaulin shelter often covers the bow.

The Northumberland coastal village of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea has a pub called "The Coble", named in tribute to these boats.