Carefully roll the paper sails around the hull and start slowly feeding the top half of the ship into the bottle. Push the boat through the bottle s mouth stern first.

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Pull on the control threads and partially raise the mast.

How do you build a boat in a bottle. Once the rest of the ship is in the bottle. Learn the secret of the ancient maritime art of ship in a bottle building. You are just trying to get them out of the way while you rejoin the two halves of the hull.

Holding the masts down with your fingers push the boat into the bottle s mouth slowly until the hull touches the wood putty lining at the bottom. The model is not built inside the bottle it is built outside the bottle and of a size that can just bearly fit into the nec. This is the traditional method.

The stern is the front side of the boat which usually is closest to the largest sails and points upward.