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posed to have originally been built on that coast. The name is also 

 applied to clinker-built, square-sterned boats. 



This is a wooden, clinker-built, open, kpel boat; sharp at both 

 ends; curved stem; straight sternpost: cat-rigged, carrying a single 

 si^ritsail; has one pair of oars and two thwarts. 



Dimensions of hoat. — ^Length, 15 feet; beam, 4J feet; mast, above 

 thwart, 11^ feet. Scale of model. 1 inch equals 1 foot. 



Cat. No. 5T,561 U.S.N.M. 

 Model of salmon boat. 



Universally used in the salmon gill-net fishery near the mouth of 

 the Columbia Eiver. Most of these boats are owned at Astoria. 

 Oregon. 



A wooden, carvel-built, double-ended, open boat ; bow and stern 

 rather strongly convex above, sharper with hollow lines below ; con- 

 siderable rise to floor; eas}* bilge; straight and nearly vertical stem 

 and sternpost; moderate sheer; washboards along the sides; deck 

 for 2 or 3 feet at either end: four thwarts; carries a single spritsail 

 on mast stepped well forward. 



Dimensions of boat. — Length over all, 25 feet 9 inches; beam, 

 C feet 9 inches; height amidships, 2 feet 6 inches; at ends. 3 feet: 

 mast, IG feet 3 inches long; oars, 12 feet long. Scale of model. 

 1 inch equals 1 foot. 



The first boat of this kind used on the Columbia River was 

 built at San Francisco, Calif., in 18G9. At first the ordinary' length 

 was 22 or 23 feet, and usually they had no Avashboards. Later, 

 boats 25 and 26 feet in length were built, liut were found to be 

 rather unwieldly for two men to manage. At present the size 

 ranges from 23 to 28 feet in length, though the majority do not 

 exceed 24 feet. 



This type of boat was first used on the Sacramento River, the 

 original boat being built in May, 1868. The Sacramento boats range 

 in size from 15 to 25 feet in fengtli. They usually carry a single 

 leg-of-mutton sail, but on the Columbia the spritsail is in favor. 



Cat. No. 22,216 U.S.X.M. 



Block model of sponge sloop. 



The sloop-rigged boat Terror- was built from this model at Key 

 West, Fla., to engage in the sponge fishery on the reefs betAveen 

 the Florida Keys. 



A wooden, carA-el-built, centerboard boat ; wide and shallow, in 

 form resembling the small centerboard sloop-yachts of the Atlantic 

 coast of the United States; long, sharp, nonflaring bow; stem 

 straight and nearly vertical above water, curved below : rising floor ; 

 medium length of run, Avith skag; Avide rudder; raking V-shaped 

 stern; moderate sheer. 



