high and moderately hard bilge, and tumble-home 

 in the topsides. 



The rigged model of the Fredonia shows a sharp 

 schooner having a straight keel rabbet with much 

 drag and fairing into the stem rabbet just forward of 

 the heel of the foremast, with the stem rabbet raked and 

 flared forward. The sternpost has much rake and 

 the counter rises steeply and fairs into a small V- 

 shaped elliptical transom; in profile there is no break 

 at the transom heel, the transom raking in line with 

 the profile of the counter. The stern is narrow and 

 light. The sheer is strong, the entrance is very long 

 and sharp, with hollow at the forefoot; the run is 

 relatively short and easy, the buttocks showing a 

 slight curve as they rise aft; the midsection is formed 

 with strongly rising floor having a slight hollow, a 

 high and rather hard bilge, and tumble-home in the 

 topside. The vessels had a long, low quarterdeck. 

 A marked characteristic of this design and that of 

 the Carrie E. Phillipsis a very deep keel outside the 

 keel-rabbet and a marked curve in the shoe profile. 



The hull design of the Fredonia, a development of 

 that of the earlier Carrie E. Phillips, had sharper 



Lines of the FismNO Schooner 

 Fredonia, built in 1889, from a copy 

 probably made from the plan of 

 the designer Edward Burgess. 



ends, a harder bilge, and greater capacity. The 

 Phillips was 104 feet 5 inches at rail, 95 feet between 

 perpendiculars, 24 feet 6 inches beam, and 11 feet 

 depth. The Fredonia was 111 feet 6 inches at rail, 

 99.6 feet between perpendiculars, 23.6 feet beam, and 

 10.3 feet depth of hold, her actual moulded beam was 

 23 feet 9 inches. The Dixon was 114 feet 9 inches at 

 rail, 101.9 feet between perpendiculars, 23.4 feet 

 beam, and 9.1 feet depth of hold, the mould-loft 

 measurements being 101 feet 2 inches between per- 

 pendiculars, 23 feet 9 inches extreme beam, 10 feet 

 2 inches depth of hold. The differences represent the 

 average error in Customhouse measurements. All 

 three schooners were trimmed well below their de- 

 signed load waterline, the Dixon drawing 14 feet, 

 compared with the designed draft of 12 feet indicated 

 in the designer's plans. 



Scale of model is % inch to the foot. It is shown with 

 all sails set: mainsail, foresail, forestaysail, jib, 

 jib topsail, fore and main gaff-topsails, main-topmast, 

 or fisherman's, stay.sail. The vessel has dories 

 stowed upside-down on deck and lashed, as when 

 making a passage. 



The rigged model shows the designed spar plan of 

 the two vessels: bowsprit 36 feet 9 inches outside the 

 rabbet at deck, foremast 60 feet 9 inches above deck, 



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