Coimbatore-based school teacher builds miniature models of a Naval ship and sailing boat
The Hindu
Queenthunk Amalanathan has hand-crafted scale models of iconic ships and sailing boats during the lockdown
“All the old wooden boat builders are disappearing fast in Britain. Lovely to see a model of one,” reads a feedback on a social media post about a miniature sail boat. “He’s talking about the ‘ Dragon’ sailing boat designed originally by Norwegian Johan Anker in the 1920s,” says Coimbatore-based Queenthunk Amalanathan F (Amal) who built the scale model of the same from scratch and posted a few photos on Facebook. “Dave Taylor who is from Europe commented how he had raced on them during his young days when such wooden boats were made in the UK. The Dragon is a one-design keelboat which was later used in the Olympics.”More Related News