About the vessel "ANITRA" 40'9" x 9'6" x 5'6" Designed by A. Montye Macrea, Oakville, Ontario. The original ship's drawings show her name as "ADANAC IIII" - Macrea having built three previous "ADANAC"s - but before she was launched he named her "ANITRA", after a character in the Ibsen play "Peer Gynt". Built by Robertson Bros in Hamilton, Ontario, she has oak frames with cedar planking and a total sail area of 900 sq.ft. Her mainmast and some of her blocks come from "AGGIE", the famous racing cutter built by Captain Andrews in 1887 at Andrew's Shipyard on Oakville's 16 Mile Creek. A successful racing boat in her time "ANITRA" won the R.C.Y.C. "Edward Prince of Wales" Cup in 1939, the "Turnbull Trophy" in 1939, and the "Cecil G. Marlatt Memorial Trophy" in 1940. She has more than 100 racing pennants to her name. "ANITRA" has been sailing out of the Oakville Club for 90 years (2016) under the Macrae family burgee for the entire time. About Ray Peacock's model of the "Anitra" (2016) The model is built to a scale of 1:24, ½" to 1 ft, as she appears in 2016. Constructed mainly in Swiss pear, she is built "plank-on-frame" with all construction timbers as shown in her drawings. The spars and blocks are degamé (lemonwood), and the rigging is stainless steel wire and hand-made cotton rope. The sails are mylar, sewn to mast hoops of alder wood. Metal fittings are brass, chemically darkened to bronze or black. The cabin is fully finished as on the original, including a model of the engine located under the cabin entrance. She flies the Macrea Family burgee, the Oakville Club pennant and the Ontario Provincial flag. About Ray Peacock
Born and brought up in the village of Port Sunlight, the home of the soap company Lever Brothers, near the city of Liverpool, Ray has always lived near the sea and large lakes. As a boy he would often take the “Ferry ‘cross the Mersey” from Birkenhead to Liverpool, where he watched the ships that plied their trade from the wharves and docks of the city that grew on ship building and the commerce of the world, and which was the control centre of Atlantic Naval operations during WWII, known as “The Western Approaches”. He was also not far from the entrance to the Manchester Ship Canal, and would spend time watching the freighters of the world as they passed, opening the inland City of Manchester to international trade. Ray took a degree in Food Technology in London. He followed this with a career, first in the meat industry, then in the chocolate business. Ray and his family lived in a village near the ancient City of York, with a history dating back to Viking and Roman times, and an area hotly contested during the Civil War. Ray, his wife and three children were “exported” to Canada in 1971 by his company, and became Vice-president of Manufacturing of the Canadian branch of Rowntrees, the makers of Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp, Smarties, Black Magic and After Eight Mints. He took up ship modeling as a hobby during our Canadian winters, initially building from kits, but later graduating to scratch building. Ray is a member of Metro Marine Modellers, https://metromarine.org/. He is also a founding member of Model Shipwrights of Niagara, https://modelshipwrightsofniagara.weebly.com/. In addition to building his own models Ray also restores old and damaged models for private individuals and public institutions, to museum-quality standards of accuracy and finish of hulls and rigging. His Admiralty-style model of the 22-gun ship HMS “Ontario”, a “snow” which sank in the Lake in 1780, was built after considerable research, is considered to be the authentic model of the ship.
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