a fine painting of this schooner in their office at Boston. 

 Plans of the vessel also exist and these and the painting 

 show the errors in the model's longhead and details. 



The half-model shows a clipper schooner hull having 

 rather straight sheer, a straight keel with strong drag, 

 rounded forefoot, raking stem rabbet, a nearly straight 

 and nearly upright post, and a short counter with 

 raking elliptical transom. The entrance is sharp 

 and convex, the run long and fine. The midsection 

 shows a rising straight floor with much dead rise, a 

 high and rather hard bilge, and tumble-home in the 

 topside. 



Mounted with head, keel, post, and rudder. The 

 vessel had a long, low quarterdeck and cockpit aft. 



The model measures about 67 feet moulded length 

 at rail, 19 feet moulded beam, 8 feet moulded depth, 

 and is for a vessel drawing 10 feet at post and about 

 5 feet 6 inches forward. Scale of the model is % inch 

 to the foot. 



Given by Dennison J. La\\lor, shipbuilder, Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts. 



YACHT and PILOT SCHOONER, 1853 

 Builder's H.\lf-Model, usnm 76035 



Olata 



The clipper schooner Olata was built on this model 

 at East Boston, Massachusetts, in 1853 by Dennison 

 J. Lawlor. It is believed that she was built on specu- 

 lation and was intended for a yacht. However, very 

 soon after her launching, she was employed as a 

 packet, running between Boston and Provincetown, 

 and in that service she attracted much attention 

 because of the manner in which she outsailed fast 

 yachts, pilot boats, fishermen, and coasters. She was 

 chartered in 1856 to carry the American consul out 



from Boston to St. Thomas in the West Indies. Just 

 before departure her foresail was so damaged that it 

 could not be used, and she therefore sailed under her 

 large jib and mainsail, making the passage in 7 days. 

 In 1858 she was sold to the New Orleans pilots; her 

 later career has not been traced. 



The half model represents a very extreme clipper 

 schooner hull, of the yacht or pilot-boat form, having 

 graceful sheer, a straight keel with moderate drag, 

 well rounded forefoot, a rather upright and flaring 

 stem rabbet, upright post, a short and rounded 

 counter having flaring bulwarks, very sharp entrance 

 with marked hollow particularly just abaft the fore- 

 foot, and a very fine run. The midsection is formed 

 with a very marked hollow at garboards and a sharply 

 rising floor, the bilge is high and quite hard, and the 

 topsidcs have a marked tumble-home. The bow sec- 

 tions show marked flare. The Olala, which appears 

 to ha\-e been flush decked, sat low in the water and 

 had a graceful longhead, trails, billet, and head rails. 



Mounted with longhead, trails, cutwater, keel, post, 

 and rudder. 



The model is for a vessel 73 feet 2 inches moulded 

 length at rail, 69 feet 10 inches between perpendicu- 

 lars, 20 feet 8 inches moulded beam. 9 feet 4 inches 

 moulded depth, rabljet to underside of deck at side, 

 and drawing about 10 feet at post. Scale of the 

 model is % inch to the foot. 



The Olala is described as havino raking masts 

 rigged "pilot-boat fashion," with a large single jib, 

 loose-footed foresail (no fore-topmast), boomed main- 

 sail, and with a main gaff-topsail and a main-topmast 

 staysail. 



Given by Dennison J. Lawlor, shipbuilder, Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts. 





Llnes of the Pilot Schooner .and Yacht Olala, built at East Boston, Massachusetts, in 1853. 

 builder's half-model USNM 76035. 



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