about 30 or 31 feet. The main boom would be about 

 22 to 24 feet long, the fore boom about 15 feet or a 

 little less, the main gaff about 14 or 15 feet long, and 

 the fore gafT 12 to 14 feet long; the gaflfs had only 

 moderate peak. 



No forcstay or shrouds were employed. The rig- 

 ging of the model appears approximately correct, 

 though the fore boom topping lift, it is thought, is of 

 too late a form for this model and may be a later 

 addition. 



Many of the features of the Chebacco boat can still 

 be seen in the boats used at the northern end of the 

 Gaspe Peninsula, where the old Chebacco was intro- 

 duced by Loyalists after the American Revolution. 

 In some New England references to the Chebacco 

 they were called ''Ram's Head Boats," which suggest 

 that the stem head of some fell inboard above deck, 

 as in the old gundalow barges of the Piscataqua River, 

 New Hampshire. 



The Chebaccos were usually painted green above 

 the waterline with the prominent stemhead and any 

 adjoining chocks painted bright red. The Chebaccos 

 had a reputation for fast sailing and seaworthiness; 

 the large Chebaccos and dogbodies made voyages to 

 the West Indies and fishing trips to the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, to Cape Breton Island, and to Anticosti 

 Island and the Gaspe Peninsula. 



Model given by Stephen J. Martin. 



DOGBODY CHEBACCO BOAT, about 1800 

 Rigged Model, usnm 57387 



This model is of a square-sterned Chebacco boat 

 or "'dogbody" of about 1790-1806. Two examples 

 of the type from Customhouse records are the Raven, 

 built in 1795, 35 feet 9 inches between perpendic- 

 ulars. 1 1 feet 9 inches l)eam. 5 feet 8 inches depth 

 in hold, and 20'J^o tons; and the .\abby, built 1793, 

 36 feet 2 inches between perpendiculars, 1 1 feet 

 11 inches l^eam, 5 feet 10 inches depth in hold, 

 and 21 -'^5 tons. Since this model shows bulwarks 

 rather than the low rail of the small Chebaccos. 

 it may represent a larger boat than these, such 

 as the Patriot, built 1795, 40 feet Ijetween perpen- 

 diculars, 12 feet 6 inches beam, 5 feet 5 inches 

 depth in hold, and 23'?^5 tons; or the Friendship, 

 built 1805, 39 feet between perpendiculars, 11 feet 

 2 inches beam, 5 feet 9 inches depth in hold, and 

 22 '^'95 tons. The model, if to a scale of K inch to the 

 foot, would measure about 36 feet at rail, 1 1 feet 6 

 inches beam, and about 20 tons measurement. 



The model represents a standing-room boat. 



Squ.\re-.Sterned, Chebacco Bo.\t, or dogbody, of 

 the first decade of the igth century. Rigged model 

 USNM 57587. {Smithsonian photo 4^gj7-c.) 



having a short and rather full entrance, short and 

 full run. long dead flat amidships, and moderate 

 sheer. The keel is straight and with drag, the stem 

 curved and raking, and the post raking, with what 

 appears to be a square tuck. It has a small-boat 

 Y-shaped lower transom, an overhanging middle 

 transom, and a raking flat upper transom (some of 

 the dogbodies are stated to have had round tucks 

 with the old upper and lower transoms of this form 

 of stern). The midsection shows a slightly rising 

 floor, a low. full bilge, and upright topside. In 

 general, this model appears too full ended and 

 burdensome for her period. 



The deck arrangement is that of the pink-sterned 

 Chebacco with cuddy-deck forward, whereas in the 

 square-sterned boat the windlass is abaft the foremast, 

 which was probably the usual position in ihe small 

 boats, at least. 



The rig, too, is like that of the pink-sterned Che- 

 bacco; in the model the foremast stands 28 feet above 

 deck and the mainmast 30 feet. The main boom 

 is 20 feet long, fore boom 16 feet, main gaff 13 feet, 

 fore Q;aff 14 feet. The model shows a mainsheet 



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