Below is a display of Christopher’s Long Island built racing sailboats, working sailboats and commercial working boats as well as the plans he draws up and the tools he uses to create these fine models as displayed at the Suffolk County Historical Museum in Riverhead, NY from April 18, 2015 through September 19, 2015.
Christopher Hale also demonstrated his method of half-model making in person utilizing specialized hand tools and line drawings of specific boats. Hale crafted working boats indigenous to the south shore of Long Island, including a 1970s era Garvey and a sail powered tonging boat from the early 1900s.
