Restoring the yacht Velocitas

[martijnonderwater]

I recently bought a model of a sailing yacht. It was in a sore state, broken and dirty. So yeah, romantic old me couldn't resist restoring her The yacht is probably a kit, because I see twins of my model for sale all the time. If anyone knows the manufacturer and the name of the ship, I'd be curious to know. I decided to call her Velocitas. Enjoy!

 

[Uwek]

Maybe you can show us some photos of the hull from the side, so we can try to identify the vessel
It is looking like a race yacht from the America´s Cup around 1900
Maybe Shamrock or Columbia .....

 

[martijnonderwater]

Oddly, I forgot to make pictures of the hull. She's in storage for a short while (couldn't resists starting work on Mamoli's Royal Louis), so I can't insert any pictures of the hull. But I do have a picture of one of her sisters:

 

[Uwek]

The deck houses of her "sister" are completely different, so I think this is a complete different vessel.

from your video


To identify the vessel we would need some more details, otherwise it is only a guess.
If you want to restorate once the model, it will be necessary which exact ship th smodel is representing

 

[Uwek]

Here are the Shamrock versus Columbia in the race 1899

 

[martijnonderwater]

Episode 2 is on YouTube now. It will be the last update for a while, because I started building the Royal Louis by Mamoli.