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Category: Chinese Junks & Sampans
Product name: Hong Kong Pleasure Motor junk
Product number: M/CJM05
Product description: Hong Kong, or “Fragrant Harbour”, was once famous for the fragrance of the island’s natural growing camphor trees which were used for making incense, and for its natural harbour. It’s proximity at the mouth of the Pearl River provided shipping access to inland Southern China and acted as a transshi...
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Category: Wooden Half Hulls
Product name: Taipan 28 sloop
Product number: M/WHH01
Product description: We custom make in wood a half-hull of your boat - sailing, motor, dinghy or other watercraft. Mounted on a wooden frame, with a brass name plate. Our half-hulls are hand made by our skilled crafts people. Ideal for home or office....
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Category: Western & Other Models
Product name: Taipan 28 sloop
Product number: M/WM01
Product description: These 28 foot GRP sloops were designed and built in Pak Sha Wan, Hong Kong. Rumoured nearly 200 were built from approximately 1960 - 1980, some are still in Pak Sha Wan. These are very seaworthy vessels with full keels and relatively short rig. Different interiors were built, with interior tables...
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Category: Mini-models
Product name: 鸭 屁 股 ya pi gu (Lorcha)
Product number: M/MM01
Product description: “Lorcha”, or “Lorch”, is a Portuguese word defined in the Oxford dictionary as “a fast sailing craft built in China with the hull after a European model, but rigged in Chinese fashion, usually carrying guns.” The Chinese junkmen referred to the Lorcha as 白 鱼 壳 “bai yu ke” (“white fish shell”) or 鸭 ...
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Category: Construction Models
Product name: Tara Fisher 16
Product number: M/CM01
Product description: After a Naval Architect has designed the vessel we suggest that two models are built; (1) a “Construction Model” to test the general three dimensional layout and aesthetics of the entire vessel; (2) a “Flotation Model”, a radio controlled model, to test the sailing characteristics of the vessel. ...
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Category: Radio Control Models
Product name: Tara Fisher 16
Product number: M/RCM01
Product description: Tara builds radio control models (R/C) which are as accurate, as best as we can build, to scale of weight, hull profile, etc. For example we have built a “Tara Fisher 16” model which is Flotation Model using radio control equipment.
We prefer to build our radio control models to a scale ...
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Category: Vietnamese Models
Product name: Thuyền 5 ván (5 wood boat)
Product number: M/VM01
Product description: Hue has a lagoon for more than 100km - hence these vessels are riverine craft which are defintely not ocean capable!
The traditional hull build of 5 planks were held together by stitching the planks together - a technique only found elsewhere in England.
Sails were normally the...
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Category: Wall Mounted Models
Product name: ghe nang
Product number: M/WMM01
Product description: Wall mounting can be used on almost any Tara models.
Here we have a "ghe nang" from Central Vietnam model with 3/4 hull so that a light can be added behind the model to create a wall mounted lamp - ideal for a childs bedroom! ...
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Category: Chinese Sailing Junks
Product name: Chinese sailing junks
Product number: YB/CSJ01
Product description: Chinese sailing junks have been around for thousands of years, in all shapes and sizes.
Sailors recognize the seaworthiness and safety of the junk or lugsail for long distance ocean cruising. Designers such as Thomas Colvin and Bruce Roberts have a preference for junk rigging.
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Category: Motorsailors
Product name: Tara Fisher 16
Product number: YB/TF01
Product description: Tara has taken the traditional wooden Vietnamese fishing boat and recreated a vessel to “high quality commercial build specs” which is capable of offshore use and circumnavigation.
The Tara Fisher is designed as a motorsailor with a strong emphasis on motoring. The Chinese lug sail is de...
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Category: Childrens Boats
Product name: Sara 1.8
Product number: YB/CB01
Product description: Our daughter`s name is Sara, and this boat was built for her to row, to play on in the water - or to fill up and use as a pool on land!
Ideal for children upto about 5 years old.
Length is 6 foot, beam 2 foot and freeboard only 9 inches. Has three airtight chambers so is unsin...
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Category: Vietnamese Yachts & Boats
Product name: Tara Hoi An 5.5
Product number: YB/VNY01
Product description: These boats are the classic hull designs of Central Vietnam. Hull material is normally kien kien wood, but bamboo matting is also sometimes used. Our vessel uses the classic adjustable bow "centreboard" and rudder. Sail was made by Tara....
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Category: Chinese Junk Sails
Product name: Tara Fisher 16 Junk sail
Product number: SM/CJS01
Product description: The Chinese junk sail is a balanced lug sail.
This sail was evolved by the Chinese over thousands of years. When used on an unstayed mast it has numerous advantages:
1. Ease of lowering in bad weather - halyard is lowered and sail is reefed. The junk sail is hung from the ya...
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Category: Vietnamese Lug Sails
Product name: Ghe Nang lug sail
Product number: SM/VLS01
Product description: Today Vietnamese sailing vessels are rare - the few that exist are fishing vessels with lug sails to save money.
"Indo - China" means that there is a mixture of Indian and Chinese in Vietnamese maritime history. Even a quick glance at Vietnamese vessels shows that the North predominantly...
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Category: Junk Rig
Product name: Tara junk land yacht
Product number: LY/JR01
Product description: Land yachts have been around for a very long time. We are the first company to construct a land yacht with a Chinese junk sail! reason is because we build our rig with a large sail and to reef just let the halyard rope go and the sail area is reduced.
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Category: Western Rig
Product name: Tara western sail land yacht
Product number: LY/WR01
Product description: ...
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Category: Dinghy Trolleys
Product name: 4m sailing dinghy trolley
Product number: TR/SDT4
Product description: Custom built from marine grade stainless steel these trolleys are normally designed for beach launching.
We build quality trolleys for hardstanding or beach launching for vessels such as speedboats, jet skis, dinghys, etc....
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Category: Wooden/Marble Picture Plate
Product name: Wooden Picture Plate of Chinese sailing junk
Product number: S/WMPP01
Product description: These are pictures of classic Chinese sailing junks mounted on a wooden plate with wooden stand....
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