CATALOGUE OF THE "SVATEECRAFT COLLECTION. 239 



IS often impossible to prevent the waves from breaking into a boat. 

 When a boat is in danger of filling, the fishermen all jump together 

 on one side and by a simultaneous movement turn it completely 

 over, scramble onto the bottom, stick their knives into the keel, and 

 cling to the knife handles until help arrives or they perish. The 

 Loffoden fishermen prefer a boat that can be thus capsized, and so 

 strong is this prejudice that, whatever other good qualities a craft 

 might have, if it lacks in this particular the Norwegians of that 

 region will not use it. 

 Gift of Berlin Fishery Exposition. Cat. No. 55,786 U.S.N.M. 



-XOnWEGIAN FISHIXG BOAT. 



Model of Lister (Norway) fishing boat. 



Boats of this type are used chiefly in the mackerel and herring 

 gill net fisheries from the town of Lister, on the west coast of Nor- 

 way. They range from 35 to 40 feet in length, and have the reputa- 

 tion of being swift sailers. 



This is a wooden, clinker-built (nine planks on a side), sharp- 

 ended, keel boat ; hollow rising floor ; water lines very concave ; rak- 

 ing curved stem and sternpost; rudder outside; steers with tiller; 

 open; washboards, with coamings, along the sides; four thwarts 

 (second one from bow with mast hole) ; six frames; diagonal frame 

 or breasthook at bow and stern; sloop rigged; mast little forward 

 of amidships ; loose-footed sprit mainsail, with brail lines and three 

 reefs; forestaj^sail and jib. 



