CATALOGUE OF THE WATEriCRAFT COLLECTIOX, 



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A tub-shaped, clinker built, keelless craft; excessively ^\'ide and 

 blunt, with bluff and almost square ends, tumbling in at top, curved 

 and sloping below to join bottom; stem straight and slightly raking 

 above water, strongly curved below ; straight raking sternpost ; 

 large rudder hung outside ; flat floor, with narrow flat section in 

 middle projecting downward like a keel: short turn to bilge; slightly 



-DUTCH " BOMBSCHUITE." 



flaring side ; heavy chock on bends for leeboarcl to rest against ; fair 

 sheer; fitted with beam trawl, wooden capstan for heaving in the 

 nets; oars; two-flued and three-pronged iron anchors; fish bins, etc. 

 It has a peculiar yawl rig seen nowhere else in the world, with hemp 

 sails and mast jointed so that it can be lowered into the large stern 

 crutch when the boat is engaged in the drift-net herring fishery. 



Dimensions of vessel. — Length, knightheads to taffrail, 3"2 feet; 

 beam, 20 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 7 feet 9 inches: bowsprit, out- 

 board, 11 feet 3 inches; jibboom. total length. 2^1: feet: mast, deck 



