This is one of those projects that I started a LONG time ago as a side project that I kept in the workshop of the Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights' workshop aboard the ferryboat Eureka. It was a design that intrigued me, and I've always had an interest in ship from the period of the War of 1812.
Amati calls this the "Arrow", saying it was used on Lake Champlain. It's straight from a Chapelle drawing of a design that he says "can not be accounted for", so it may have never been built. But, it's certainly a unique and interesting kit.
I built pretty much straight from the Amati kit with few modifications. Most changes were small, like the use of some pear wood I had on hand for the upper most hull strake, a minor change to the run of the brails, and the making of my own sails rather than the ones provided in the kit, etc.
Other minor mods were pear wood blocks from Master Korabel and Syren model rope. Also, the oars are Amati etched brass fittings that I painted using a technique that Chris Watton outlines in his ship's boats instructions and elsewhere.
The flag, I created using Adobe Illustrator, and printed on thin computer paper on my inkjet printer.
Overall, this was a fun and challenging build of an interesting subject. It's roughly 1/55 scale, and about 18" long.
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