Far too long ago, I was contacted by the Japanese American Citizens League in Monterey, CA, about building a model of this particular fishing boat for their small Heritage Hall Museum. I originally passed along the project to another modeler here in the San Francisco Bay Area, or so I'd thought. I ended up working on this with ship modeler Paul Reck, who has made numerous models for the S.F. Maritime National Park and for the yacht clubs here. I ended up taking the whole project over at some point, and recently finished it. Today, I drove down to Monterey and delivered the model to its new home.
The model is essentially a solid carved hull with deck beams added for deck planking. It is a 1/24 scale model about 15" long, and the only reference info we had was a single photo of the boat on her launch day. The boat pre-dates the Monterey Clipper type, but is probably its forerunner.
The significance of the particular boat is that it was one of many boats owned and operated in Monterey by the large population of Japanese immigrant fishermen that had been settling in the area since the 1890s. It's one of the few boats where the actual builder, Monterey Boatworks, and the owner are known, though I personally don't have his details recorded.
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