Sea Shell Shop, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Overall dimensions: 35" H x 4" W x 32" L (1:32 scale) This newly designed Limited Edition museum-quality scale replica Columbia sailboat is offered exclusively by Handcrafted Model Ships. This sail boat includes a numbered Certificate of Authenticity signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris as only 100 will ever be made. Accurate in almost every detail to the original Columbia sail boat this Columbia sailboat offers features not available by other sellers and has many upgrades over all other sailboat models available. This is a pre assembled model. Models are shipped with the sails unassembled. All rigging lines and stays have brass hooks attached. They easily hook into eyelets on mast boom sprit or deck. Pictured instructions with numbers on the hooks allow anyone to easily assemble this sailboat model in less than 4 minutes. This allows us to offer the model at a reasonable price. If assembled the shipping cost alone would increase the cost by an additional $100 - Additional and higher-quality deck details - Authentic cloth American flag - Additional deck planks have been added and stained to match the actual Columbia sailboat - Additional and higher-quality solid brass metal railings and cleats have been added - Highest quality accurately scaled solid metal ship wheel - Accurately detailed structures on the deck including windows - A scale tied-down lifeboat on the stern of the deck to mimic the actual Columbia America's Cup sailboat - The hull is meticulously painted the actual colors of the original Columbia America's Cup sailboat. Look closely on the hull and you can see the individual planks and wood grain - Highest-quality sails and additional rigging over all other models: The sails are slightly starched to hold their shape and a higher quality and higher thread-count material is used similar to that of the actual Columbia sailboat at the time it sailed. We offer three unique sail materials that are matched to the different eras of model yachts we offer. Also additional rigging lines have been added to be more true to the actual Columbia sail boat. Our Columbia model sailboat is built with rare high quality woods. Hand painted the actual colors of the Columbia America's Cup sailboat. Columbia America's Cup sailboat model has fabric sails with detailed stitching. To build this model ship extensive research was done using various sources such as museums drawings copies of original plans and photos of the actual Columbia yacht.