JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Schooner Bluenose: Very nicely done and finished. I

Vern L

Beautiful! Some years ago when I lived in Vermont, my neighbor, who had a boat, invited me to go along up to Burlington harbor for the 4th of July fireworks show. As we approached the harbor there were 30 -40 boats already there. As I looked there was one that stood out from the rest, like Ferrari among Pintos. When I asked what that ship was, he said the Intrepid, the last wooden hulled to win the AMerica's Cup Looks similar to your model. Great work documenting great design!

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Paul, I didn't realize until last night that the main part of this post was deleted & sent, Sorry; a wandering finger must have hit some key that deleted a portion and then sent it out. I'll have to be more careful.

In my previous, unfinished post, I was raving on your workmanship and the finished product, but I can't recall the prose I used. Never the less your Bluenose is a gorgeous model and you and it are due all the praise you get.

I too am a 'part time' model builder, and about eight years ago built the Billings Boats (England) kit model of the Bluenose II as a winter project. I too was looking for something less time consuming than a fully square rigged vessel; however, it turned into a two year project. Since a young teenager I had looked for a model of her. I got interested in the Bluenose after my parents purchased a boat built (1950) in the same yard in Nova Scotia that built the Bluenose. However a business, house, three kids and involvement in building and flying model RC aircraft , postponed it until after I retired some fifty years later.

The Billings kit was a good starter for a new ship modeler, and like your model was plank on bulkheads. I am glad that I have had 30 years of owning sail boats It was a big help when I got to the spars & rigging, neither of which were very well documented in the drawings. After I started building I just couldn't bring myself to build a model of a 1921 fishing schooner with the modern stuff that "the authorities" now require so I replaced the midships deck house that sits where the first Bluenose had a fish hold and and hatch and eliminated the inflatable life rafts. I didn't add the sails but included the rigging. I think they detract from the running rigging, and I knew it's display location was going to be on a ledge just inside our front door where our guests see it. A previous model, similar to a Maine-ship sloop, sailed off that ledge when gust of wind came through an open door. There was little damage but it has heavier spars and didn't have my two years of work...so far the missing sails seem to be doing their job.

DJphoto Loc: SF Bay Area

Beautiful work, both with the camera and in the workshop.