CATALOGUE OF THE WATERCRAFT COLLECTIOX. 



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illustrates the method of hand-line codfishing pursued in early colo- 

 nial days. 



The model represents a wooden, carvel-built, keel vessel, with full, 

 long body ; round bow ; large figure head, and heavy windlass abaft 

 die foremast ; boat stowed amidships : square stern : steers \vith a tiller. 



Rigged as a snow of the seventeenth century. 



Dwiensions of vessel. — Length over all. T"2 feet ; beam, 18 feet : 

 depth, 10 feet; bowsprit, outside. 29 feet inches; spritsail yard. 33 



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feet; foremast, above deck, 11 feet; fore-topmast, heel to head, 37 

 feet; fore flagpole,. 16 feet 6 inches; foreyard, 10 feet; fore-topsail 

 yard, 33 feet; mainmast, above deck. 12 feet; main topmast, heel to 

 truck, 38 feet; main flagpole, IT feet 3 inches; mainyard. 11 f^t: 

 main topsail yard. 31 feet G inches; spanker gaff. 21 feet G inches. 

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



The snow is represented as riding at anchor on a fishing bank 

 with all sails furled. Along the starboard side are 10 men standing 

 in barrels lashed to the deck, fishing for cod with hand lines over 

 the side of the vessel. The latter is supposed to be swung by the 

 current side to the wind: and along the weather side of the vessel, 

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