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Boat Facts
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| -- The armed schooner, The Hannah, was bought by President Washington in 1777 to combat attacks on American Shipping by English Privateers. This was the first armed vessel in George Washington's Navy, and was used in the siege of Boston to capture provisions ships making for the harbor from British ports. |
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Model Facts
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| -- Boat constructed from scratch based on plans by Harold N.Hahn from Howard I.Chapelle reconstruction drawings, obtained through the National Museum of Natural History. |
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| -- Materials. Decking: Poplar; Planking: Alder; |
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| Deck pins: Bamboo, made from bamboo skewers pulled through successively smaller drill gauge sizes; Taffrail: Maple, boiled, shaped, and clamped; Ratlines: Cotton twine glued with homemade wax-coated clamps that provide proper vert and horiz spacing; Masts and booms: Tapered birch dowels. |
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| -- Model featured in "Ships in Scale" magazine, JA/FE 2006, Vol XVII, No. 1. |
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