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FELCA

Model is hand-crafted from hard wood with planks on frame construction. Model is ready for display, not in kit form.

 

Specifications

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This model is in our wish list and if you wish to make order, please feel free to email us at sales@gianhien.com

 

Felca model sailing boat

HISTORY

Felca was designed by Max Oertz, a famous Classic Yacht Designer and early aviation expert. He lived from 1871 to 1929 and was the designer of the Kaiser's yachts.

Born 20th April 1871, Max Oertz was a naval architect, a builder, engineer, and later a pioneer of aviation, with experience in Finland and St. Petersburg before developing his yard near Hamburg.

Around the time Oertz was working in Hamburg the Kaiser developed a keen interest in yacht racing – and not just as a participant. He wanted to develop a yachting culture in Germany that could rival that of the British and Americans. Max Oertz played a leading part in that development and his name became inseparable with the emergence and rapid development of the German yacht industry at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century.

He designed many class racing yachts and later he was given the prestigious job of designing the Kaiser’s schooner, ‘Meteor IV’, to race against ‘Britannia’. His output was both prodigious and successful.

Other well-known Oertz designs are ‘Felca’, ‘Lims’ and ‘Samoa’.

Packing term: Model is packed with mast fold flat down to minimize the shipping cost.

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