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HALF MOON model
Half Moon was a 85' long Dutch East India Company ship
that sailed into what is now New York Harbor in
September 1609. She was commissioned by the VOC Chamber
of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic.
Englishman
Henry Hudson who was employed by the VOC to search for a
passage to the Far East set sail on March 25, 1609.
Disregarding instructions, Hudson and his Half Moon mixed Dutch
and English crew explored much of the American east
coast before sailing up the river that later bore his
name in September.
In his
1625 book New World, which contains invaluable extracts
from Hudson's lost journal, Johannes de Laet, a director
of the West India Company, writes that they "bent their
course to the south until, running south-southwest and
southwest by south, which they supposed to be an island,
and gave it the name of New Holland, but afterwards
discovered that it was Cape Cod".
From there
Half Moon sailed south to the Chesapeake Bay and then
went north along the coast navigating first the Delaware
Bay and, subsequently, the bay of the river which Hudson
named the Mauritius River. Half Moon sailed up Hudson's
river as far as Kinderhook, and the ship’s boat with
five crew members ventured to the vicinity of
present-day Albany, New York, where the crew determined
the water was too narrow and too shallow for further
progress. Concluding then that the river was also not a
passage to the west, Hudson exited the river. Half Moon
then sailed north-eastward, never realizing that what
are now the islands of Manhattan and Long Island were
islands, and crossed the Atlantic to England where she
sailed into Dartmouth harbor with the Dutch East India
Company ship and crew.
In 1909,
the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United
States with a replica of Half Moon to
commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage.
The replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934.
Fifty
years later, the New Netherland Museum commissioned a
second Half Moon replica which was constructed in Albany, New York
in
1989. Research uncovered the Dutch East India
Company’s 1608 construction resolution which detailed
critical dimensions and details. Few
cuts were guided by straight lines. Everything was
curved, cambered, beveled and often bent. The bow of the
ship was very rotund while the stern was narrow and rose
high above the intended waterline. This high profile
worked like the tail of a weathervane in maintaining the
ship’s course while reaching and tacking, that is,
sailing across the wind or slightly into the wind at an
angle.
Today, Half Moon is located in the Port of Volendam in
Netherland and open to the public at a permanent
mooring.
This
primarily wood
Half Moon model is
25"
long x 23" tall x 10" wide.
$3,390
Shipping and insurance in the
contiguous US included;
other places: $300 flat rate.
Model is built per commission only. We require only a
small deposit to start the process $900. The
remaining balance won't be due until the model is
completed.
Click for
lead time.
Learn more about the
historic ship
Half Moon
here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halve_Maen
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