length and convex. The run is long, easy, and 

 slightly rockered in the buttocks. The midsection is 

 forward of midlength and shows a short, straight and 

 gently rising floor, slack round bilge, and slightly 

 flaring topside. 



Scale of model 1 inch to the foot, for a vessel of 21 

 feet moulded length at deck, 6 feet 5 inches moulded 

 l)eam, and 1 foot 10 inches moulded depth. It was 

 probably intended to carry a knockabout rig, with 

 oval cockpit. Small sloops of this ispc were very 

 popular in the period 1918-32 as a one-design racing 

 class and for general pleasure sailing. 



Gift of Mrs. Otis A. Palmer. East Moriches, Long 

 Island, New York. 



CENTERBOy\RD SLOOP, 1897 

 Rigged Model, usnm 310829 



Arkl 



The Ariel was designed by Arthur Binney of Boston, 

 Massachusetts, and built by George Lawley and Son. 

 Neponset, Massachusetts, in 1896-97. She was a gaff- 

 rigged, centerboard, knockabout sloop of a type popu- 

 lar in the United States at the end of the 19th century 

 and in the early years of the present century. 



The model represents a w^ooden, caravel-plankecl 

 centerboard sloop of moderate sheer, having a short, 

 straight keel with much drag (formed by a skeg), and 

 the keel rabbet cambered fore-and-aft to fair into the 

 overhanging bow and counter. The stem is curved 

 and the coimter long and thin, ending with a wide, 

 shallow, elliptical transom raking sharply. The en- 

 trance is rather sharp and convex, and the run is long 

 and easy. The bow sections are U-shaped. The 

 inidsection has a rising straight floor, hard round 

 bilge, and an upright topside. 



The model is mounted on glass representing water, 

 and shows the boat in process of picking up or drop- 

 ping her mooring. The topsides are white, bottom 

 green, and deck varnished. The ouj.board sides of the 

 trunk and the cockpit (elliptical in plan) are white, 

 and the cabin trunk roof yellow. There is a slide 

 hatch companionway for the cabin trunk. A small 

 fiat-bottomed skiff-tender is shown in the case with 

 the model. 



The model is fully rigged and details are well shown. 

 The mast is forward of the trunk. There is no bow- 

 sprit. The sails include a large jib with club laced to 

 the foot, a gaff-mainsail with lioom laced, and a small 

 club gaff-topsail. 



The Ariel was 38 feet overall, 10 feet beam, 23 feet 

 length in the waterline, and drew 2 feet 4 inches with 



the centerboard raised and about 6 feet 6 inches with 

 it lowered. Scale of the model is % inch to the foot. 

 Bequest of Major John W. Loveland, \\'ashington, 

 D. C. 



J-CLASS RACING SLOOP, 1934 

 Rigged Model, usnm 313627 



Kaiubow 



This is a model of the America's Cup defender Rain- 

 hmv, Avhich sailed against the English challenger En- 

 deavour in 1934, winning a series of six races, of which 

 the Endeavour won the first two. This big sloop 

 was designed by Starling Burgess, naval architect, and 

 was built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, 

 Bristol, Rhode Island. Large sloops of this size and 

 general type were built to race for the America's Cup 

 which had been won in a squadron race at Cowes, 

 England, in 1851 by the New York schooner-yacht 

 America. 



The model shows a large racing sloop of the J-class 

 of the Universal Rule having slight sheer, a very short 

 and heavy ballast keel, a long, pointed bow v\ith some 

 reverse curve in the profile below the load line, a rak- 

 ing straight post, a long and thin counter ending in a 

 small elliptical raking transom with an athwartship 

 curve in its face, and no bulwarks but a low grab rail 

 along the planksheer. The midsection is somewhat 

 Y-shaped, with a thick ballast keel, or fin, and strongly 

 rising floor, a slack and easy round bilge, and a nearly 

 upright topside. The entrance is fine and convex, 

 the run long and very fine. 



A dinghy is carried on deck at the stern, forward of 

 which is a small hatch, steering wheel, and binnacle, 

 companion hatch with skylights on each side of it, 

 main skylight, mast, and a small hatch. The fore- 

 stays come to deck well inboard of the stemhead. 



The Rainbow measured 126 feet 7 inches overall, 82 

 feet on the waterline, 20 feet 11 inches beam, 14 feet 

 1 1 inches draft, and had a mast 1 52 feet 6 inches, deck 

 to center of halyard sheave in mast. The measured 

 sail area was 7,549 square feet. .Scale of the model is 

 % inch to the foot. 



Gi\'en by Chandler Hovey, Boston, Massachusetts. 



INLAND LAKE RACING SCOW, 1900 

 Rigged Model, usnm 316086 



M.inne7jtka 



This model is of an early racing scow de\eloped for 

 the Inland Lake Yachting .Association (founded in 

 1898). an association of vacht clubs located on lakes 



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