Volunteer 25" Limited

• Overall dimensions 24" L x 4" W x 25" H
• This is a pre assembled model. Models are shipped with the sails unassembled. All rigging, lines and stays have brass hooks attached, which easily hook into eyelets on mast, boom, sprit or deck. Assembly takes less than 5 minutes
• Deck Details include:
  • Brass metal cleats around deck, brass railing, thick masterfully stitched white sails, painted black and white, American Flag
• Detailed instructions and pictures included for easy assembly
• Our Volunteer sailboat yacht is built with rare, high quality woods.
• This model rests on a wooden base
• This model sailboat yacht is hand painted the actual colors of the Volunteer yacht
• To build this model ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual yacht.
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Volunteer was the victorious American defender of the seventh America's Cup race in 1887 against Scottish challenger Thistle.

Design

Volunteer, a centerboard compromise sloop, was designed by Edward Burgess and built by Pusey & Jones Shipbuilding Company at Wilmington, Delaware in 1887 for owner General Charles J. Paine of the New York Yacht Club.

Volunteer had an all-steel frame and hull, with a deck of white pine.

Career

Volunteer easily beat the 1886 America's Cup defender Mayflower during the trials, and won both Cup races on September 27 and 30, 1887, against Thistle. It was skippered by Captain Hank Haff with the assistance of Captains Terry, Berry and L. Jeffreys.

Soon after the Cup races, Volunteer was bought by John Malcolm Forbes (who also owned Puritan) and was altered as a schooner in 1891. It was broken up at a New York junkyard in 1910.

Specifications

    * Overall length: 32.91 m
    * Length at water line: 26.10 m
    * Beam (width): 7.06 m
    * Draft: 3.04 m
    * Displacement: 130 tons
    * Sail area: 834.40m²