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with purse seines, and in the Avinter for the frozen-herring trade. 

 This model of her is mounted to represent the extreme clipper fish- 

 ing schooner (at the date when she was built) on a mackerel cruise. 

 She is under full sail, seine boat on port side, with a purse seine 

 stowed in it ; dory towing astern. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all. 78 feet; beam. 22 feet; 

 depth, 7 feet : net tonnage, 76.17 ; bowsprit, outside, 20 feet 6 inches ; 

 jib boom, outside cap, 14 feet 6 inches; foremast, above deck. 62 feet 



FIG. 37. NEW ENGLAND SCHOONER " .MARY O'DELL.'" 



6 inches ; f oretopmast, heel to truck, 36 feet ; f oreboom, 26 feet ; fore- 

 gaff, 26 feet; mainmast, above deck, 64 feet; main topmast, 36 feet; 

 main lioom, 56 feet 6 inches; main gaff, 28 feet 6 inches; seine boat, 

 36 feet 6 inches long over all, 8 feet 6 inches wide. Scale of model, 

 one-half inch equals 1 foot. 



The Mary Fernald illustrates the extreme to which designers of 

 fishing vessels went in producing wide, shallow, sharp schooners, 

 having broad heavy sterns, and the underAvater after section so hol- 

 lowed out as to produce abrupt curves, the lower part of the run 

 being substantially a skag. These vessels, having excessive initial 

 stability, carried a large area of canvas ; they were heavil}" sparred, 

 and in gales were dangerous, since the center of gravity was so high 



