This weekend, I just ran across a model boat kit manufacturer on the Internet. Their website shows that they have quite a large number of kits of American workboats in large scales of 1/4″=1′ and larger.
Looks like they have 15 different kits, including: Box Stern, Chesapeake Bay Bugeye, Chesapeake Bay Buy Boat, the charter fishing boat Breein Thru, a Hooper Island Drake Tail, a Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe, and many others. The prices are very nice too. Of the 15 kits they offer, only five of them list at over $100.
Wye River Models’ Chesapeake Bay Bugeye, 1/4″=1′ scale (1:48)
Wye River Models’ Smith Island Crabbing Boat, 3/4″=1′ scale (1:16)
Wye Rivers Models’ “Virginia” Round Stern Workboat, 1/2″=1′ scale (1:24)
Never having built, or even seen one of these kits, I can’t vouch for them, but from here, they look really nice. Until I’ve actually seen one of their kits in person, you’re just going to have to see them for yourself, starting with their website at http://www.wye-river-models.com/index.html.
If you do contact them, tell them you heard about them from me! Ω
Ship Modeler 
Reblogged this on Hyde Street Pier Model Shipwrights and commented:
Have you heard of this American boat model company? I don’t know how long they’ve been around, but their models look really nice and reasonably priced. Might be worth checking out!