194 BULLETIN" 127, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



They are often rigged as single-masted '' cats," but the hirger boats 

 usually carry a jib. 



The boat Yankee Hero^ of which this is a miniature, was built at 

 Lubec in 1889. 

 Deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries. Cat. Xo. 76,266 U.S.N.M. 



Model of felucca. 



Felucca -rigged boats of this type, varj'ing in size from 20 to 36 

 feet in length, are used for market fishing from San Francisco. 

 Calif., and at other points on the California coast. They fish in bay 

 and ocean. The type is distinctively from southern Europe ; they 

 are owned and manned chiefly by natives of Italy, though Portuguese 

 and Greeks sail on them. 



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

 moderately sharp, rather strongly convex above and hollow lines 

 at and below water line; stem and sternpost straight and nearly 

 vertical : with large hatch amidships ; cockpit aft for steersman ; a 

 single mast stepped nearlj' amidships and raking forward ; one large 

 lateen sail. (A jib is usually carried.) 



Dimensions of boat. — Length, 20 feet; beam, 7 feet 3 inches; depth, 



2 feet 9 inches; bowsprit, 2 feet 6 inches; mast, above deck, 13 feet 



3 inches; yard, 24 feet 6 inches; sail, 23 feet on yard, 18 feet 6 inches 

 on foot. Scale of model, 1 inch equals 1 foot. 



The larger boats of this class go as far as Drakes Ba}-, Monterey, 

 or the Farralone Islands. They are reputed to be swift and able. 

 Collected by Livingston Stone. Cat. No. 22.213 U.S.N.IM. 



Model of felucca. 



Lateen-rigged feluccas of this type are more extensively employed 

 in the market fisheries of the Pacific Coast States than any other 

 boat, and are particularly in favor at San Francisco, where they 

 originated and where the}' are chiefly used, though they are found 

 in many other localities along the coast of California. These boats 

 range in size from about 20 to 36 feet in length; the majority of 

 those fishing outside of the Golden Gate are upward of 28 feet long. 



A wooden, carvel-built, keel boat; ends alike; moderately sharp 

 bow and stern, both strongly convex at top and hollow at and below 

 water line ; straight stem and sternpost ; rising floor ; flaring side ; 

 good sheer; flush deck; large covered hatchway amidships; cockpit 

 aft for steersman ; felucca rigged, with single mast and one lateen 

 sail. 



Dimensions of hoat. — Length over all, 21 feet 6 inches; on keel, 

 21 feet : beam, 7 feet 3 inches. Scale of model. 1 inch equals 1 foot. 

 ' Boats of this type are reputed to be swift ; they also are stifle. The 

 fishermen often take great risks in carrying a press of sail in strong 



