QuoDDY Boat Yankee Hero built at Lubcc, Maine, in 1889, jib-and-mainsail rig. Lines taken uli' builders 

 lialf-model USNM 76293. Deck arrangement and spar dimensions are from rigged model USNM 76266. 



use as a sardine carrier, to attend a weir and carry the 

 catch to a cannery. The model is for an a\crage size 

 boat of the type. The Tankee Hero is represented by a 

 rigged model (usnm 76266) in the VVatercraft Collection . 



Boats of this type were very popular in the shore 

 fisheries of eastern Maine, from the Penobscot to the 

 Canadian border and beyond, on the western shore 

 of the Bay of Fundy, in New Brunswick. Some were 

 smacks having live wells, and on occasion were em- 

 ployed in the loljster fisheries. 



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

 double-ended, decked sloop having strong sheer, 

 straight keel with heavy drag, straight and raking 

 post, slightly curved and raking stem. The midsec- 

 tion formed with sharply rising straight floor, hard 

 ijilge, and rather upright topside. The bow sections 

 flare; the after sections are somewhat Y-shaped near 

 post. Greatest beam is at midlength; the entrance is 

 sharp, long, and somewhat convex; the run is long, 

 easy, and quite hollow. 



Scale of the model is y^ inch to the foot, producing a 

 vessel 33 feet 6J2 inches overall, 32 feet 3 inches on 

 deck, 1 1 feet 1 inch moulded beam, 5 feet 3)4 inches 

 moulded depth, and drawing about 5 feet 6 inches aft 

 and 3 feet 3 inches forward. 



Given by J. Brown, boatbuilder, Lubec, Maine, 

 1894. 



QUODDY BOAT, 1889 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76266 



Yankee Hero 



This sloop-rigged model is of the Quoddy boat 

 Tankee Hero, represented by the builder's half-model 

 USNM 76293, shows the rig and deck arrangement 



common in this type of sardine carrier once employed 

 in the vicinity of Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine. Boats 

 of this type and size usually referred to locally as 

 pinkies, were decked and fitted, with a small cuddy 

 abaft the mast, a large fish hatch amidships and a 

 small standing room for the helmsman well aft. 

 Noted for seaworthiness, the type was swift and handy 

 imder sail. 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot, representing a 

 boat 32 feet 3 inches in length. The mast stands 39 

 feet 3 inches above deck, bowsprit 6 feet 6 inches out- 

 board of stem rabbet at deck, boom 29 feet and gaff 

 10 feet long. The rudder is hung outboard and the 

 boat is steered with a tiller. 



Gi\en by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



SURFBOAT, 1875 



Rigged Model, usnm 24999 



This model represents a class of boats used rather 

 extensively by the old Lighthouse Board and to a 

 lesser extent by the old Life Saving Service in Maine 

 coastal areas before 1876. The boat was somewhat 

 similar to some of the double-ended Hampton whalers 

 built at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, for the 

 fisheries, except that the surfboat had no sails. Boats 

 of this form and size were very seaworthy and could 

 be easily worked under oars or sails. The model some- 

 what resembles also the Labrador whaler once built 

 in Nova Scotia. Canada, for the Laiirador fisheries. 



The model shows a double-ended, open, lapstrake 

 rowing boat having a straight keel, upright curved 

 stem, raking post with rudder hung outboard, strong 

 sheer, sharp entrance and run, and midsection with 

 rising floor, moderately hard bilge, and flaring side. 



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