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old pilots spoke enthusiastically of her fine qualities. The model 

 has been mounted and painted in imitation of the vessel built from it. 



This schooner is specially interesting, inasmuch as it conveys a 

 good idea of the chief features which characterized the pilot boats 

 of the forties and the old-time schooner-yachts of the New York 

 Yacht Club. Like all sharp schooners of her time, she had strongly 

 raking masts. 

 Gift of D. J. Lawlor. Cat. No. 76,040 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of schooner yacht. 



The wooden schooner yacht OJata, designed by D. J. Lawlor, was 

 built by him from this model at East Boston, Mass., in 1853. In 

 1858 she was purchased by the New Orleans pilots and employed in 

 the pilot service off the passes of the Mississippi River. 



The Olafa was a deep, beamy keel schooner, with sharp, flaring 

 bow, wave-shaped Avater line; hollow, sharp floor; lean run; round 

 stern; raking stem. The model has comparatively little sheer and 

 its greatest beam is about one-third of the length from the stem. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all, 73 feet; beam, 20 feet 9 

 inches; depth, 10 feet. Scale of model, one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The Olata represents the most advanced ideas of New England 

 yacht designers at the date when she was built. Her characteristic 

 features are wave-shaped lines, heavy draft, and sharp, hollow floor. 

 She was swift for that time and very Aveatherly. In 1856 she made 

 the passage from Boston to St. Thomas, West Indies, with the 

 American consul on board, in seven days, though onh^ the mainsail 

 and jib could be set because of some mishap soon after sailing. For 

 some years she ran as a packet between Boston and Provincetown, 

 Mass., and was a noted vessel at that time because of the ease with 

 which she could outsail fishing schooners. 



This model is interesting from the fact that it is one of the early 

 designs made in New England for swift pleasure schooners. 

 Gift of D. J. Lawlor. Cat. No. 76.035 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of cruising yacht. 



This model was exhibited at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 

 in 1884-85. It represents the ideas of Canadian designers of that 

 period, for a large sailing yacht intended for ocean cruising. The 

 position of the masts suggests that the designers anticipated having 

 a brig or brigantine rig. A vessel built from these lines would be 

 easy and safe and would make a moderately swift cruiser. 



It is long, deep, and narrow; long and very sharp bow; rising 

 floor; rather quick bilge; long, sharp run; light, elliptical stern; 

 very little sheer. Model mounted and' fitted with stub masts and 

 bowsprit, head, stem, keel, sternpost, and rudder. 



