SINGLE-SCULL RACING SHELL, 1897 

 Full-Sized Boat, usnm 311024 

 Oars, usnm 311395 



This single-scull, or one-man racing shell, was used 

 by Edward Hanlon Ten Eyck to win the "Diamond 

 Sculls" at Henley, England, in 1 897. E. H. Ten Eyck 

 was the son of the professional oarsman James Ten 

 Eyck and was the fastest amateur sculler of his day. 

 After winning a large number of races in America he 

 entered the Diamond Sculls at Henley, England in 

 1897, rowing as a member of the VVachusett Boat 

 Club of Worcester, Massachusetts, his home. He 

 was then 18 years old and won the race in record 

 time. He trained in a professional manner and this, 

 and other conduct, led the English to refuse his entry 

 in 1898, apparently on the grounds of semiprofession- 

 alism. Ten Eyck continued rowing and was unbeaten 

 until he retired from active competition in 1901. 



The boat was built by J. H. Clasper at Putney, 

 England, for the owner and to his specifications. 



Craft of this class and model were developed to 

 allow the highest possible speed under oars in smooth 

 water, and the boat exhibited is of the type rowed by 

 a single oarsman using two sculls, or oars, and 

 steering with his feet. 



The boat is a long and very narrow double-ended 

 hull having a U-shaped midsection, cambered keel, 

 straight sheer, curved and very raking stem, shallow 

 upright post, and a very sharp entrance and run. 

 The hull is built of veneer (some were built of paper) 

 and has steam-bent ribs of very small scantling, 

 closely spaced. The deck is of varnished muslin or 

 cotton, the cockpit has flaring side coamings, with 

 a V-shaped breakwater at the fore end. Also pro- 

 vided are a sliding seat for the rower and oarlocks 

 outrigged on each side by means of a tublar frame. 

 The hull is 31 feet 6 inches long, \0% inches beam, 

 and weighs 30 pounds, dry. Oars are 9 feet 5% inches 

 long; the blades are 2 feet long and spoon-shaped in a 

 hollow curve to give a better grip on the water. 



Given by James A. Ten Eyck. 



OUTRIGGED ROWING BOAT, 1890 

 Full-Sized Boat, usnm 309501 



Saunterer 



This boat is of a type once much employed in 

 pleasure rowing by skilled oarsmen who had been 

 trained in outrigger shells with sliding seats. Known 

 as working boats, or "wherries," they had a wide seat 

 aft for a cockswain or passenger and were capable of 



great speed in smooth water. Such boats were used 

 for training crews for pair-oars racing shells, or for 

 pleasure rowing. 



The Saunterer, very lightly built of thin cedar plank 

 and slight, bent frames, has a straight keel, curved 

 and upright stem, raking and very narrow V-shaped 

 transom about 6 inches wide at gunwale, very slight 

 sheer, and a long and very sharp entrance and run. 

 The midsection has a slight rise in the straight floor, 

 a slack round bilge, and a flaring topside. There is 

 a stern seat with cane back, two sliding seats, each 

 outrigged on both sides, for rowers and a seat facing 

 aft at bow. The boat steered with a rudder having a 

 yoke (missing) and steering lines. Outriggers are of 

 tubing and rod. 



The boat is 24 feet long, 3 feet V/i inches beam at 

 gunwale, 5 feet 5 inches over the outriggers, and 

 depth of the hull amidships about 1 1 inches. 



Gift of Charles G. Warden, Washington, D. C. 



PISCATAQUA RIVER PACKET BOAT, 1865 

 Rigged Model, usnm 311147 



This model, made by the donor from memory, is one 

 of the last of a type of small sailing packets once 

 used on the Piscataqua River, in New Hampshire, 

 to carry passengers, mail, and light freight to the river 

 villages above Portsmouth, N. H. These small 

 packets, which remained in use until about 1870, 

 were in fact the marine counterpart of the stagecoach 

 in this area. The boats, some of which were fast 

 under sail, usually operated between Portsmouth and 

 an individual village, each boat serving a given 

 section in the Great Bay region. The regular river 

 packet service had been in larger sloops and schooners 

 until steam packets came into use in the 1850's on 

 the rim between Portsmouth and Dover. 



The model represents a hull having the form of a 

 ships' yawl-boat of more than usual depth. It has 

 slight sheer, a straight keel with some drag, an 

 upright stem with a slightly rounded forefoot, raking 

 post, and a heart-shaped flat transom with rudder 

 stock inboard. The entrance is full and convex and 

 the run rather easy but short. The midsection is 

 formed with a rising straight floor, a firm round 

 bilge, and a nearly upright topside. The model, 

 roughly made, represents a boat with lines somewhat 

 fuller than was usual in this type. The deck arrange- 

 ment however, is typical; the mast is well forward 

 in the "eyes" of the boat, with its heel over the fore 

 end of the straight part of the keel. On this short 

 mast a triangular lateen-type sail is shown slung from 



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