These kits are intended for experienced modelers.  Kits in this series feature plank-on-frame construction.   Before building a Skill Level 4 kit, we recommend that you construct a Skill Level 3 Apprentice kit.

Apprentice Boats Paint Kit #910 Comes with Sanding Sealer, Two Brushes and All the Colors You'll Need to Make Your Level 3 Boat Beautiful!

Apprentice Boats Rigging Kit #911 Here's everything you need to rig the sails on your Apprentice model boat, all in one package! This tool kit includes the most useful tools available for completing the rigging and sail installation on your model sailboat. Kit features:  • Bent Tip Locking Tweezer holds small parts. Simply press the lock and the parts easily release! Stainless steel construction. • Magnifying Tweezer for close-up detail work features a glass magnifying lens with 6 times magnification! Stainless steel construction. • Beeswax and Dispenser is used on all rigging cordage to keep fibers together and eliminates the "fuzzy" look for an authentic looking rope appearance. • Pin Vise with 4 Drill Bits features a magnetic cap to hold bits securely in the handle, preventing their loss. Includes four popular drill bits #52(.063"), #60(.040"), #67(.032") and #72(.025"). • Rigging Threader, these re-usable appliances make it easy to thread rigging line through small holes and blocks! (5 included)

 
In September, 1933, the Royal Yacht Squadron offered a challenge for the next America's Cup.  In spite of the "Depression" in the United States, and the fact that most yacht builders had put their J-Boat projects on hold, Harold S. Vanderbuilt formed a syndicate of 17 people to build Rainbow.

Starling Burgess, Rainbow's designer, had drawn up Rainbow's lines back in 1931 based on a proposed challenge by Sir Thomas Lipton.  The plans were updated, and building began.  Rainbow was built in a record 100 days, and fitted with some of the latest gadgets and mechanical devices, including her teardrop shape mast and "plank-on-edge" type boom.

In 1934, Rainbow succeeded in retaining the America's Cup for the United States, after sailing to victory against T.O.M. Sopwith's challenger, Endeavour.

This kit is an authentic representation of Rainbow and offers an enjoyable building challenge for the modeler interested in plank-on-frame construction.

* Midwest Micro-Cut Quality die-cut and machine cut parts featuring Basswood, Mahogany and Birch.
* Laser-etched Basswood deck with plank lines for greater realism
*Die-cut mast and boom sections
* Finished display stand with nameplate and brass pedestals
* Die-cut keel, frames and subdeck that jig-lock for perfect alignment
* Integral frame extensions that allow the hull assembly to be glued to the building plank, which eliminates hull twist
* Pre-shaped keel blocks, transom block, companionway and skylights
* Cast Brittania Pewter fittings including blocks, spreaders, binnacle, dinghy, coffee grinder winch and steering wheel
* Machined brass fittings including turnbuckles, winch head and functional gooseneck
* Etched brass fittings including winch wear plates, mast wheel and skylight frames
* Cotton sail cloth and rigging lines
* Pre-cut sail numbers and cove stripe decals

 
In September, 1933, the Royal Yacht Squadron offered a challenge for the next America's Cup.  T.O.M. Sopwith, renowned aircraft designer, wasted no time in using some of his best people to develop Endeavour I.  The results of their efforts was a J-Boat that was quite technologically advanced for her time.

Endeavour was more technologically advanced that the defender, Rainbow, and was obviously the faster of the two.  Unfortunately for the British, that was not enough to take the America's Cup away from the Americans.  In one of the closest America's Cup races in history, Rainbow defeated Endeavour I by taking advantage of Endeavour I's amateur crew and out-thinking her captain.

This kit is an authentic representation of Endeavor I, and offers an enjoyable building challenge for the modeler interested in plank-on-frame construction.

* Midwest Micro-Cut Quality die-cut and machine cut parts featuring Basswood, Mahogany and Birch.
* Laser-etched Basswood deck with plank lines for greater realism
*Die-cut mast and boom sections
* Finished display stand with nameplate and brass pedestals
* Die-cut keel, frames and subdeck that jig-lock for perfect alignment
* Integral frame extensionst that allow the hull assembly to be glued to the building plank, which eliminates hull twist
* Pre-shaped keel blocks, transom block, companionway and skylights
* Cast Brittania Pewter fittings including blocks, spreaders, binnacle, dinghy, coffee grinder winch and steering wheel
* Machined brass fittings including turnbuckles, winch head and functional gooseneck
* Etched brass fittings including skylight frames, companionway grills and door grills
* Cotton sail cloth and rigging lines
* Pre-cut sail numbers and cove stripe decals