Recreation vessel; Yacht

Scale: Unknown. A model of a yacht's hull made entirely in wood and painted light blue. The hull is made of a number of wood layers and the exterior is finely carved, the interior unfinished. The aft end of the hull has been filled with body filler and roughly painted in cream, and two shades of brown. There is a pronounced keel with two brass drop keels, one larger than the other, both with pronounced rivets along their front edges. A rectangular piece of wood is screwed to the floor of the hull and above it, on the starboard side is an angled strip of aluminium with numbers marked in two shades of marker pen '0' to '20'. On starboard bow "Model No.090 CN" and on starboard broadside "Gridlines 1.0 Feet Apart Measured on Girth".

Object Details

ID: SLR0292
Collection: Ship models
Type: Full hull model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Camper & Nicholson Ltd
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall model: 306 x 1462 x 316 mm