Scale: Unknown. A full hull model of a Chinese houseboat used on the Grand Canal which runs between Peking and Hangchow. The model is made almost entirely from wood with textile sails. The main section of the hull is carved from a single piece of wood to which has been added the gunwale, cabin, and large curved rising timbers that support the bow and stern. The model is finished overall in natural varnished wood apart from the three part roof section on the cabin. The hull is complete with seven floorboards together with two large circular beams, mounted athwartships at the bow, which are fitted with a pair of wooden thole pins. There are outriggers on which the two sets of oars can be worked when not under sail. On either side of the cabin at deck level are a pair of wooden sponsons supported on three wooden beams projecting from inside the hull. Both the bow and stern are flat in plan and curve upwards with the stern 'crooked' or leaning towards the port side. The large cabin aft of the mast consists of a stern section with a door on either side and a small window amidships overlooking the lower portion of the cabin. The middle section consists of a square cabin fitted with two pairs of doors on either side, and the forward section is rectangular running athwartships with a single door on either side and an oval roof. On the series of doors the top half has a fretted swastika design. Just forward of the cabin is a single pole mast which is circular in section and tapers towards the top and is mounted through a wooden tabernacle stepped on the keel. The single sail is fully battened with bamboo and consists of a large forward section of material with three additional sections known as bonnets. There is a series of rope and block rigging secured to the luff, foot, and leech of the sail which are secured to a series of benches and post in the stern. There is a triangular shaped balanced rudder fitted under the counter which may have been cut at the level of the waterline. Lashed to the larger circular beam on the foredeck are a pair of large balanced oars with one edge of the blade serrated and three smaller oars of different patterns.