Macy Whaling Harpoon Boat Nautical Ship Marine Sea
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S & P Harpoons We hand make museum quality harpoons. These are real harpoons , hand made new, but aged to look old. Our harpoons are typical representations of the "irons" found in the Catalogue of The Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society in New Bedford, MA. The iron is an early two-flue type (the oldest type used by the whalers), and is patterned after an iron by Josiah Macy. He was born on Nantucket in 1805. He moved to New Bedford and made harpoons there with his three sons. The iron measures 36 1/2 inches long from the tip to the end of the split socket. It is hand formed, and aged thru controlled corrosion to an antique fire black patina. The split socket is served with genuine Stockholm tarred marline ( the good stuff and expensive) and secured with a whalers turkshead knot to prevent chafing of the whale line when in use. It is stamped WB ( waist boat, to denote the whale boat station ) and S&P, the makers mark as was the custom. It is mounted to the pole using genuine hemp line, not cheap manila! ( The best and expensive also ) Thus overall it is 7 foot 5 1/2 inches long. The pole is dense Alaska Spruce and is selected from a standing dead forest making the pole over 100 years old in itself. It is hand hewed using a draw knife and represents the age of the old poles. This is a classic double flue harpoon.
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