Reliance 26"

Item  #  Reliance-20V

Reliance 26"
 
  • Sold Fully Assembled - Just pull this model ship out of the box and display, there is no rigging to tie or mast to assemble.
  • 26" H x 4" W x 20" L (1:75 scale).
  • Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull of the ship model one at a time).
  • Built with rare, high quality woods.
  • Hand painted the actual colors of the Reliance yacht.
  • Fabric sails with detailed stitching. No plastic parts.
  • 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 yacht.

 
 

She was designed by the famous designer Nat Herreshoff, his fourth America's Cup defender design. Her design took advantage of a loophole in the contemporary '90-foot' rule, to produce a vessel with long overhangs at each end, so that when she heeled over, her waterline length (and therefore her speed) increased dramatically.

Reliance was one of the earliest pure large racing yachts; she was completely unfinished below deck, with exposed frames. She was also the first to employ winches (below deck), in an era when her competitors relied on sheer man-power.

Her sail plan was massive: from the tip of her bowsprit to the end of her 108 foot (32.9 meters) boom, she measured 201 feet (61.2 meters), and the tip of her mast was 199 feet (60.7 meters) above the water (the height of a 20-story building). Everything else was to an equally gargantuan scale; her spinnaker pole was 84 feet (25.6 meters) long, and her total sail area, around 17,000 square feet (1600 m²), was the equivalent of 8 12 meter class yachts
     
     
 Reliance 26" $89.95
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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