Egg Harbor Melon-Seed Gun- 

 ning Skiff from lower Barnegat 

 Bay, New Jersey. Rigged model 

 USNM 25658 showing a typical 

 boat of this type. {Sinithsonian 

 lihoto 4^6gy~a.) 



was controlled Idv a yoke and steering lines, as in 

 the sneakljox. 



The model shows a sqiiare-sterned caravel-planked 

 centerboard boat having a moderate sheer, rockered 

 keel \vith skeg. ciir\ed stem, raking transom with 

 rudder hung outljoard, sharp entrance, and an easy, 

 well formed run. The midsection shows a slightly 

 rising straight floor, slack rounded bilge, and flaring 

 topside. The centerboard is of the curved dagger 

 type, not pis'oted. The boat is decked except for 

 small cockpit nearly amidships which has covers and 

 a spray cloth. 



The rig is a single boomed spritsail, the mast well 

 forward as in a catboat. 



The model is of a skifl' 13 feet AK inches extreme 

 length at gunwale, 4 feet 3 inches beam, and about 

 13,![; inches depth from rabbet to centerline of deck 

 amidships at fore end of cockpit. Scale of model is 

 2 inches to the foot. 



Given by P. Brasher. 



WOODEN CANOE, 1880 

 Full-Sized Boat, usnm 160315 



Sa/rej' Gcimp 



This very small canoe was built by J. H. Rushton 

 of Canton, New York, about 1880 for George W. 

 Sears, who, under the pen-name "Nessmuk,"' wrote 

 for American sporting magazines about woodland 

 tra\el, hunting, and fishing. The canoe was designed 

 to be as light and small as was practical for a single 

 woodsman to carry and use in long expeditions in 

 the forest. Its notable builder specialized in canoes 

 and light rowing craft. The Sairey Gamp (named for 

 the midwife and nurse in Charles Dickens' Alarlin 

 Chiizdewit) was the third and last of a series of such 

 canoes built for the owner. 



The canoe, clench-planked of thin white cedar, is 

 a small double-ender of moderate sheer, having a 

 straight keel and moderately raking stem and stern 

 posts. The stem has a slight curve in profile and is 



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