A small Ketch for your Age of Bucaneers Sailpower game or other age of sail naval games. This ketch model is highly detailed, making it a rewarding challenge for experienced builders.

6MM scale Captain’s Edition : This is the latest 6MM version of this kit featuring MSLA resin 3D printed hull, masts, shrouds and sails. The kit features an improved resin that has high detail but maintains part flexibility. The goal of the Captain’s Edition is to get a model on the table for gameplay in a faster manner then previous versions. This kit is sold unassembled and unpainted.

Historic ship type:

Nonsuch was a ketch originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, The name means "none such", i.e. "unequalled". She later served in the Royal Navy. as HM Ketch (HMS) Nonsuch

While in the navy, she was taken by two Ostend privateers but quickly retaken a short time later. She was also one of several similar sized ketches at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665.

The ketch was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667. The ship was considered smaller than most but was specifically selected because of her small size so that when she arrived in Hudson Bay and James Bay she could be sailed up-river and taken out of water so the thick ice of the bay wouldn't crush her.

She sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669 in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later.

There is a wonderful replica of Nonsuch in a Canadian museum. It was built to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Hudson bay Company in 1970.