Qt'ODDY Boat Yankee Hero, 1889. Rigged model 

 USNM 76266. An average size boat of her type, she 

 was built to carry sardines from the weirs to the 

 canneries. The builder's half-nnodcl of this boat is 

 U.SNM 76293. (Smithsonian photo 4^6g6~g.) 



large fish hatch amidships, and a standing well, or 

 small hatch, right aft for the helmsman. 



The Quoddy boat was noted for its seaworthiness, 

 and this half-model represents one of the larger class. 

 It shows finer lines than w^ere usual in this type. but 

 represents a typical boat from the builder's yard, and 

 the boats built from it were said to be among the 

 swiftest of the type. 



The model shows a double-ended, keel hull haxing 

 strong sheer, a raking and somewhat cursed stem, a 

 raking straight post, the keel straight and with much 

 drag, the greatest beam slightly forward of mid- 

 length, a sharp entrance, and a long, well formed run. 

 The midsection has a straight, rising floor ending in a 

 hard turn of bilge and rather vertical sides. There is 

 hollow in the sections fore and aft, with the most 

 marked hollow in the after sections, near the post, 

 which are strongly S-shaped. 



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

 boat about 37 feet 3 inches on deck, 12 feet 9 inches 

 moulded beam, 5 feet 8 inches moulded depth, and 

 drawing about 5 feet 3 inches at post and 3 feet for- 

 ward. These boats were usually ballasted with iron 

 ore obtained locally. 



Model made at Eastport, Maine, about 1880 and 

 given by Albert Hallet, boatbuilder, Eastport, 1882. 



QUODDY BOAT, 1880 

 Rigged Model, usnm 12099 



This model represents the smaller cla.ss of Quoddy 

 ijoat, as Iniilt by the donor, Albert Hallet of Eastport, 

 Maine, about 1880. These ijoats, which ranged 

 from 20 to 28 feet in length, were cat-rigged with a 

 single gaff-sail. Most were lapstrake planked but in 

 later years caravel planking became fa\orcd in all 

 sizes of the Quoddy Ijoat. 



The model is cataloged as being on a scale of li inch 

 to the foot, and this produces a large boat for the rig, 

 35 feet at gunwale and 12 feet beam, with the length 

 of mast 39 feet 6 inches. On a scale of Y^ inch to the 

 foot, the boat would be 23 feet 5 inches at gunwale 

 and 8 feet beam, with the length of mast 26 feet 4 

 inches. It is probable that the model was on the 

 latter scale. 



The model shows a caravel-planked, keel, half- 

 decked, sailing boat having a straight keel with much 

 drag, sharply raking straight sternpost, curved and 

 raking stem, much sheer, sharp entrance, and sharper 

 run. The midsection is formed with a rising straight 

 floor, firm round bilge, and slightly flaring topside. 

 The mast stands well forward, with heel over the fore 

 end of the straight keel; it has marked rake. The gaff 

 is rather short and has a single halyard. Deck ar- 

 rangement shows a forward cuddy deck entered 

 through a slide hatch just aliaft the mast, and abaft 

 this the boat is open, with the washboards along the 

 sides having low coamings. The open portion is 

 fitted with pen boards and hatch boards forward to 

 form standing and fish rooms. Chock rails are lo- 

 cated near the bow and stern. In summer weather 

 some of these single-sail boats set a flying jib on a 

 plank bowsprit that could be readily unshipped. 



Given by Albert Hallet, boatbuilder, Eastport, 

 Maine. 



QUODDY BOAT, 1889 



Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76293 



Yankee Hero 



The Quoddy boat Yankee Hero was built from this 

 half-model by J. Brown in 1889 at Lubec, Maine, for 



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