108 BULLETIX 127, UXITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Block model of steam launch. 



The Kara was built for pleasure purposes about 1890 by Lawley 

 & Son, South Boston, Mass. She was wooden, carvel-built, open 

 steam launch, with single screw propeller, long sharp bow; upright 

 cutter stem; rising floor; easy bilge; long fine run, with skag; over- 

 hanging round stern; good sheer. 



Dimensions of launch. — Length over all, 46 feet; on load water 

 line, 40 feet; beam, 6 feet; draft aft 3 feet 6 inches, forward 1 

 foot 3 inches: area of section, 28 square feet; speed, 10 miles an 

 hour. 



This launch was specially built for catching swordfish for pleasure, 

 though she was used for general pleasure purposes. 

 Transferred from the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. No. 76,300 U.S.N.M. 



SAILING YACHTS. 



Block model of schooner yacht. 



This is the model of the schooner j^acht Coquette^ designed by 

 Lewis Winde, a Swede, and built in 1846. The model was made 

 by D. J. Lawlor, after the design of Winde, and is supposed to be 

 accurate. 



The vessel was a wooden, carvel-built, two-masted, keel schooner, 

 with sharp bow with convex lines; very sharp floor; long run with 

 straight or convex lines; light elliptical stern; sternpost nearly 

 vertical ; raking curved stem ; moderate sheer and heavy drag. The 

 Coquette sat low in the water. Its depth and wedge-shaped floor 

 gave its lines rather easy convex curves, but the fullness in the lower 

 part of the run made the buttock lines rather hard. 



Dimemions of vessel. — Length over all, 67 feet; beam, 19 feet; 

 depth amidships, 8 feet; draft aft 10 feet; forward 5 feet 6 inches. 

 Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The Coquette became famous for outsailing the nuich larger New 

 York sloop-yacht Maria in a beat to windward outside Sandy Hook. 

 In the Century Magazine of July, 1883, the following allusion is 

 made to the race : 



" The Coquette was a little schooner of only 66 feet in length over 

 all. But she drew 10 feet of water aft, having a sharp rising floor 

 and sharp run. She was built by Winde, a Swede, at one time a 

 member of Winde & Clinkard. Wlien the Coquette beat the Maria 

 it was on a wind, in a strong breeze and chop sea, which oft'ered 

 the worst possible chance for the latter vessel, which was so shallow 

 that, notwithstanding her fuie lines, she did not have sufficient mo- 

 mentum in a seaway to compete against a deeper craft." 



A few years later the Coquette was sold to Boston and used as a 

 pilot boat. She proved to be an excellent pilot boat, being swift 

 and seaworthv. and manv vears after she went out of service the 



