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Tarr and James Shipyard at Es^ka, ^lA»^A^..HL:st^ls, About 1885. with one vessel in the water and another 

 behind it on the ways. A new river steamer is in the background and other yards are beyond, with three 

 ships on the ways. Center of village is to left, in background. Sheers and hoisting tackle are rigged to step the 

 mainmast of the schooner in the foreground. The mast is alongside on the wharf. (Smithsonian plioto ^^ygj-h.) 



No vessel was built from this half-model, which 

 shows the popular extreme, shoal clipper of the period, 

 with a long, sharp and flaring bow, raking stem rabbet 

 with longhead, a long, lean and rather flat run, and 

 ending with a wide shallow elliptical transom on a 

 short counter, with heavy quarters. The midsection 

 shows sharply rising floors with some hollow, a hard 

 bilge, and tumble-hoine above. Model had marked 

 drag and a handsome sheer. 



Scale of half-model is % inch to the foot, giving a 

 vessel that measm-es about 106 feet over the rail, 24 

 feet beam, about 7 feet depth of hold, and draws aboiu 

 10 feet at the post. 



Given by Captain George M. McLain, Rockport, 

 Massachusetts. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY CENTERBOARD FISHING 



SCHOONER, about 1880 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 312332 



An unidentified centerboard schooner was built 



from this half-model in Dorchester County, Maryland, 

 about 1880, by Jo.seph T. Spicer for the Chesapeake 

 Bay oyster fishery and for general freighting. 



The half-model, which is to the deck only, represents 

 a shoal-draught centerboard schooner haxing a 

 straight keel, raking sternpost, a raking curved stem 

 rabbet, moderate sheer, and a wide, square round- 

 tuck pungy stern with upper and lower transoms (the 

 model shows cross-seam and round tuck only). The 

 stem is intended to have a long pointed head. En- 

 trance is short and full, the greatest beam being well 

 forward. The run is long and fine. The midsection 

 shows a slighdy rising straight floor carried well out, 

 a full and round bilge carried well up toward the 

 deck, and the topsides nearly vertical and shallo\\'. 

 Model marked on back with mast positions and cen- 

 terboard size and location. 



Scale of the model is !; inch to the foot, producing 

 a vessel that measures about 65 feet moulded deck 



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