Scale: 1:4. This object raises a quirky point about when a model can become the item it depicts because a small child could, in effect, sail this and use it just like the real thing. The model has been made pretty much in exactly the same way that a real Montague whaler (circa 1920) is built, and using the same materials, tools and techniques. The mahogany clinker hull has been copper-riveted to the frame, and has been yacht-varnished along the uppermost strakes and painted elsewhere.

It was made for sail-training purposes so everything needs to work as it does on a real whaler. The mast can be rigged and the sails can be set. The drop keel can be raised and lowered. On the various parts of the boat, its fittings and equipment, labels on bone, or a similar material, have been pinned such as ‘sailing tiller’, ‘rudder’, and so on.