Bluenose Limited 44"

• Requires minor assembly.  Clip on the hooks easily.  There is no rigging to tie and it takes just a few minutes. 
• 44" long x 7 " Wide x 33" High (1:38 scale) 
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• Includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris, as only 50 will ever be made
• Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull one at a time).
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as white lotus, birch, maple, yellow siris, rosewood.
• Hand painted the actual colors of Bluenose.
• The model rests perfectly on a large wood base between four arched dolphins.
• No plastic fittings
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.
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Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921, as both a working cod-fishing schooner and a racing ship. This was in response to a Nova Scotian ship's defeat in a race for working schooners established by the Halifax Herald newspaper in 1920. After a season fishing on the Grand Banks, Bluenose defeated the ship Elsie from Gloucester, Massachusetts, returning the trophy to Nova Scotia. During the next 17 years of racing no challenger, American or Canadian, could wrest the trophy from her.