Scale: circa 1:6. Full hull model two person paddling curragh of the Bunbeg and Tory Island type, Donegal, Ireland (circa 1845), of the Bunbeg and Tory Island type. The hull is constructed of a hide stretched over a hazel or willow framework. The bow is bluff and the stern square. The framework consists of ten lateral hoops which are lashed in a criss-cross pattern to twelve longitudinal and set into holes in the underside of the gunwales. The lateral hoops are doubled on across the floor. The hide or skin is stretched over the framework and lashed over the top of the gunwale. It has no keel nor stem or stern posts. The gunwale consists of six square-sectioned timbers. The longest gunwale timbers are straight along the sides of the vessel and are overlapped forward by the bevelled end of the curved shoulder gunwale. Each of the curved shoulder gunwales is in turn overlapped by the curved bow gunwale. Across the stern there is he stern gunwale is square into which the side gunwales are countersunk. The side gunwales project slightly beyond the stern. The model is equipped with two paddles.

This model is based on a prototype found in the Irish National Museum in Dublin. This type of vessel was made with a fresh untanned animal hide which was stretched over the framework. As the skin dried, it shrank to produce a tight, waterproof hull form. The projecting gunwales at the stern allowed it to be upended for drying without risk to the hide. By 1845 canvas began to replace the use of hide.

The type of paddle or ‘ceásla’ represents an old type but were still in use in the 1930s. Two people propelled the craft: one kneeling bow paddling the other sitting on the transom beam using a paddle to steer over the stern.