Rainbow was designed by Starling Burgess for a New York Yacht Club syndicate headed by Harold Vanderbilt to compete in the 1934 America’s Cup race. Rainbow beat Sir Thomas Sopwith’s Endeavour 4-2 in that regatta.

Some more specifications:

• Year Built: 1934
• Builder: Herreshoff manufacturing Company
• Designer: Starling Burgess
• original owner: Harold Vanderbilt Syndicate
• Yacht Club: New York Yacht Club
• LOA: 127 feet 9 inches
• LWL: 82 feet
• Beam: 21 feet
• Draught: 15 feet
• Displacement: 141 tons
• Sail Area: 7,353 square feet

Unfortunately, the boat was scrapped in 1940.

Our kit number MW114 comes with:

• the laser-cut elements to build the hull
• a laser-cut deck with correct openings for winches
• laser-cut deck houses
• a T-rail structure to ease alignment

Please note the kit does not include strip wood, ballast, spars, mast, rigging, or electronics.

For a blog entry on the construction of a J-Class model, please click here.

Our hulls are designed to allow you to add ballast where necessary and the depths of the keels are tweaked for better handling. This J-Class sailboat hull is deepened by approximately two inches below the scale depth. This is in concordance with the rules of the official J-Class R/C website which can be found here

Thanks for looking!

The Modeller’s Workshop
Montreal, Canada