| | | Bluenose Museum Quality Replica Ship | Bluenose was launched
at Lunenburg, Nova
Scotia on March 26,
1921, as both a
working cod-fishing
schooner and a racing
ship. This was in
response to a Nova
Scotian ship's defeat
in a race for working
schooners established
by the Halifax Herald
newspaper in 1920.
After a season
fishing on the Grand
Banks, Bluenose
defeated the ship
Elsie from
Gloucester,
Massachusetts,
returning the trophy
to Nova Scotia.
During the next 17
years of racing no
challenger, American
or Canadian, could
wrest the trophy from
her.
44" long x 7 " Wide x
33" High
Requires hundreds of
hours to build from
scratch (not from a
model kit) by our
master artisans.
Plank on frame
construction (a
painstaking process
where each individual
plank is added to the
hull one at a time).
Built with rare, high
quality woods such as
white lotus, birch,
maple, yellow siris,
rosewood.
Hand painted the
actual colors of
Bluenose.
The model rests
perfectly on a large
wood base between
four arched dolphins.
No plastic fittings
To build this ship,
extensive research
was done using
various sources such
as museums, drawings,
copies of original
plans and photos of
the actual ship.
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