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Bluenose II
Cast Your Anchor is the Bluenose II ship model specialist. We offer a number of different wooden ship model kits and even a plastic ship model kit. Blue nose modeling books, drawings, posters, hats, actual Bluenose ii hull pieces and spikes are just some of the items offered for sale. Staff and students of Cast Your Anchor have built many of the wooden model kits and know this particular ship kit quite intimately. We are able to help the modeler with any questions concerning this famous Canadian schooner. Designed by William Roué and built by Smith and Rhuland, Bluenose was launched at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on March 26, 1921, as both a working cod-fishing schooner and a racing ship. This was in response to the defeat of the Nova Scotian Fishing Schooner Delawana by the Gloucester Fishing Schooner Esperanto in 1920. That race was sponsored by the Halifax Herald newspaper. After a season fishing on the Grand Banks, Bluenose sailboat defeated Elsie (out of Gloucester, Massachusetts), returning the trophy to Nova Scotia. During the next 17 years of racing, no challenger, American or Canadian, could wrest the International Fishermens Trophy from her. Fishing schooners became obsolete after World War II, and despite efforts to keep her in Nova Scotia, the undefeated Bluenose was sold to work as a freighter in the West Indies. She foundered on a Haitian reef on January 28, 1946. Her daughter, Bluenose II, was launched at Lunenburg on July 24, 1963, built to original plans by many of the same workers.
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