- 20" long x 2" w x 17" high (1:76 scale)
- This is a pre assembled model. Models are shipped with the sails unassembled. All rigging, lines and stays have brass hooks attached, which easily hook into eyelets on mast, boom, sprit or deck. Assembly takes less than 5 minutes
- This Vigilant sailboat is built plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull of the ship model one at a time).
- Our Vigilant Yacht is built with rare, high quality woods.
- Hand painted the actual colors of Valkyrie America's Cup yacht
- Vigilant Yacht America's Cup Winner has fabric sails with detailed stitching
- Two other sizes available: Vigilant 27/32
- 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 Vigilant yacht.
- Visit our Frequently Asked Questions or call with questions.
Vigilant was the victorious United States defender of the eighth America's Cup in 1893 against British challenger Valkyrie II. Vigilant was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built in 1893 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. It was Herreshoff's first victorious America's Cup defender design.
Design
Vigilant was a centerboard sloop with all-metal (steel and bronze) construction. It was owned by a syndicate led by C. Oliver Iselin and which included Edwin D. Morgan, August Belmont, Jr., Cornelius Vanderbilt, Charles R. Flint, Chester W. Chapin, George R. Clark, Henry Astor Carey, Dr. Barton Hopkins, E.M. Fulton, Jr. and Adrian Iselin. It was skippered by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff himself.
Career
Launched on June 14th, 1893, Vigilant beat Colonia, Jubilee and Pilgrim to win the 1893 American selection trials for the America's Cup defense. It then went on to successfully defend the cup against British keel cutter Valkyrie II.
Vigilant was broken up at a New London junkyard in 1910.
Specifications
* Overall length: 38.5m
* Length at water line: 25.9m
* Beam (width): 7.92m
* Draft: 3.96m
* Displacement: 138 tonnes
* Sail area: 1014.5 m2
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