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Go Marlin fishing with Ernest Hemingway on Bimini Bay!
Since the early Key West days Hemingway wanted his own boat. He traded a promise of stories with Esquire Magazine and his publisher at Scribners for a total of a $5,000 advance. He built a 38' Playmate by Wheeler Shipyard in New York city specifying certain modifications - more gas tank for longer cruising, a second deck chair, a live fish well, and transforming the transom for pulling in big fish.
She was painted "pirate's black" and her name was taken from the older woman in "For Whom The Bells Tolls". In truth, it also was his code name for Pauline when he was still married to Hadley.
Hemingway was always the captain and the first mate on Pilar was a Cuban named Carlos Gutierrez. When Gutierrez was hired away, Hemingway turned to a man he had met while weathering a blow in the Dry Tortugas. The captain was Gregorio Fuentes, with whom Hemingway would fish for the rest of his life.
Our model was developed from photographs we took in Cuba of the actual PILAR.
Model Size: 8"h x 24.5"l x 7"w
Price includes full model and display case.
Additional $195 for lighted display case.
designed by Wind's Eye Design