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long) coming into use in 1875, while boats 40 feet long were first 

 built in 1882. 



Specifications call for a wooden, carvel-built keel boat; open; 

 sharp at both ends, the stern being widest and fullest; raking, 

 cui'ved stem and sternpost; round, easy bilge; six thwarts; fitted 

 with rowlocks, pursing gear, oar holders, oars, purse seine, towing 

 link, pump, etc. 



Dimensions of Tjoat. — Length over all. 3G feet; beam, 8 feet; 

 height amidships. 2f feet ; ends, 44 feet ; oars, 12 feet long ; one 

 steering oar. 18 feet long. Scale of model. 1 inch equals 1 foot. 



The model is painted like the original after which it was made. 

 These boats usually had a bright green bottom and white top, with 

 more or less bright-colored beads — red and yellow being most 

 commonly used. They are wider aft than forward to secure the 

 requisite buoyancy, since the seine is stowed aft. They turn quickly, 

 row easily, and tow well. A boat can be towed 10 or 12 miles an 

 hour, or even more, with safety. Cat. Xo. 25,826 U.S.N.M. 



Block model of sharpie. 



From this model a large " sharpie *' was built at Tampa, Fla., to 

 engage in the Gulf coast fisheries from that port, but more especially 

 to transport the catch from the coast " fishing ranches " to Tampa. 

 Vessels of this kind, with flat bottom and light draft, are especially 

 well adapted to the fisheries on some sections of the Florida coast, 

 where the Avater is shallow. They sail swiftly and carry a large 

 cargo on a minimum draft. 



A wooden, flat-bottomed, centerboard vessel, with long sharp bow, 

 round stei-n, slight flare to sides: after section of bottom curved 

 strongly upward: good sheer; rigged as two-masted schooner, with 

 leg-of-mutton sails. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length over all. 56 feet; beam, 12 feet; 

 depth, bottom of garboard to top of gunwale, 4 feet. Scale of model, 

 one-half inch equals 1 foot. 

 Gift of ^Y. S. Sweat. * Cat. No. 76,292 U.S.N.M. 



Model of pound boat. 



Boats of this class are used in the pound net fisheries of the Great 

 Lakes, and their peculiar construction enables them to carry large 

 quantities of fish in shallow water and to lift the bowl of the pounds 

 without upsetting. 



Flat bottom ; " sharpie " model : centerboard : straight sides : square 

 stern; open; washboards, rigged complete with spars, etc. Two sails, 

 three-cornered above the gaffs, like gaff-topsails. 



