Product Description
This high quality, highly detailed, intermediate level, La Gaspésienne fishing boat schooner model is fully assembled and ready for display (not a kit). To save on shipping this model is shipped with her masts layed down, you just need to raise the masts. A moderate skill level is required to raise the masts and adjust the rigging.
This Schooner La Gaspésienne Model was specially designed & built by the plank on bulkhead method (joining multiple small pieces of wood like Rosewood, Mahogany, Teak together on the hull). The sailboat model is built exactly to scale as the original La Gaspésienne Canadian fishing boat was with many details. The task required skillful craftsmen hundreds of hours to accomplish.
The La Gaspésienne was launched at the Canadian Davie Shipyard which was built in the beginning of the 19th century. The last of the Davie brothers died in 1951, and Paul Gourdeau, the company’s accountant, took over the business. He began building wooden fishing boats of a type called the “Gaspésienne,” producing over 125 of them.
Highlights about this historic model fishing boat:
- 100% hand built from scratch using “plank on bulkhead” construction method
- Included with this intermediate level sailboat model is a solid wood base with a brass name plate
- Size: 43" overall length x 31.25" height x 5.5" width
- Condition: New (fully assembled)
- Hundreds of hours where required to finish this model sailboat
- Completed model contains thousands of details created by skillful master craftsmen.
- Made of finest wood like Rosewood, Mahogany, Teak and other exotic tropical wood.
- Chrome and brass fittings and ornaments constitute the excellence of this model
- Extensive research through original plans and pictures make this model authentic
- This model went through a demanding quality control process before leaving the workshop
The La Gaspésienne schooner model measures overall 43" long from bow to stern. It's a fabulous fishing boat model that will be a conversation piece for any room or office.
