1992 Spray

In about 1992, I had just read "Sailing Alone Around the World" by Joshua Slocum when I found a kit of Spray by Laughing Whale. The parts were very good quality - laser cut and nice wood. I though about Mr. Slocum as I constructed this model. The history is quite interesting and worthy of its own blog, so I'll stick to the model construction. I though it would look good with sails since the scale was not so far off as to make the cloth look stupid. So I sewed a suit of sails from starched cloth with small guage brass wire sewn into the edges to keep them straight.