This is the second Jágeba I have made. Several years after making the first, I resumed the dream of building another one. I went back to Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga), took photographs and got the real dimensions of one of the vessels I found. With all this I got down to work: drawings, scale plans, cover design …
El Samson is a kit by Artesanía Latina. The original ship was a steam-powered tall tug that carried out support and rescue tasks for large ships in the Atlantic. It is a large scale model (61cm long) and easy to build, as it has a fairly “clear” deck compared to other boats.
The Marenostrum is another kit by Artesanía Latina. It is a fairly simple and very decorative boat, ideal for beginners.
Original model by the author, based on old photographs and drawings of the time. All accessories (rifle, bucket, axe, shovel, barrels ..) were made in wood.
Nowadays there are diverse shallow-draft fishing boats which share not only an etymological origin, but also a common history: the jábega, in Malaga (southern Spain); the xabec (very similar to “the catalan”), in the Balearic Islands; the sciabecco, in the south of Italy, and the sambuk, in the Red Sea.
Detailed reproduction of the original boat, based on a photographic report by the author of one of the last ‘traíñas’ that, unfortunately, has been used until recently in Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga).
This was my first “difficult” scale model. It took me more than 300 hours to finish it, and with it I discovered how little I knew. It was not just a large and complex ship, but a mix between ship and diorama, which taught me what life was like for the men who lived and died in it. Several years later, I used the plans to design and build a cross section of the same ship, that you can see under “Dioramas” category.
This model is, at the same time, into two categories, ships and dioramas, since it presents a boat recently washed up on the beach with the help of a winch. It was made following a photographic report by the author, for which the distinctive elements of this typical fishing vessel from Málaga (southern Spain) were manufactured and added.
Model by Artesanía Latina that presents one of the rowing boats that accompanied the great whalers. From these light boats, the harpoonists approached the whales in order to hunt them.
