Item  #  May-28

Mayflower 28"

• All our wooden model yachts are sold fully assembled. Compare this yacht to other sellers. Simply take this model out of the box and display. There is no rigging to tie or masts to assemble.
• 28" H x 5" W x 32" L (1:38 scale).  6 Lbs.
• This wood yacht model sits perfectly on the included wood base.
• Our model yachts are made from plank on frame construction. This is a painstaking method which requires each strip of wood to be applied one at a time.
• These wooden model yachts are meticulously painted like the actual Mayflower yacht.
• Our handcrafted model yachts have fabric sails with detailed stitching.
• There are no plastic parts on our yacht model.
• Extensive research was done to make this model. We used various sources such as the original plans, drawings, paintings, pictures, and visiting the actual America's cup racer.
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• We build our model yachts with rare and high quality woods.

The sloop Mayflower was the second America's Cup defender designed by Edward "Ned " Burgess, and built and launched in 1886 for owner General Charles J. Paine of Boston. It was built entirely of wood: oak and hard pine. It was skippered by Martin V.B. Stone.

In the trials, Mayflower defeated the yachts Puritan (Edward Burgess' first victorious Cup defender), Priscilla, and Atlantic, and was subsequently selected to defend the 1886 Cup.

By 1889 the sloop had been purchased by F. Townsend Underhill, who had it altered to become a schooner.

In 1905 Lady Eva Barker bought the vessel and outfitted it with an engine. She chartered it to adventurer Guy Hamilton Scull in 1908 on an expedition seeking the treasure of a sunk Spanish galleon off Jamaica.

Mayflower was sunk itself off Cuba in a hurricane during this expedition, and the crew rescued by passing steamers.