Fitted with fi\-e thwarts and a horseshoe-shaped 

 stern seat with backboard. It is fitted to steer with a 

 tiller; but is not fitted for sail. 



Scale of model is 2 inches to the foot, for a boat 22 

 feet at gunwale. 6 feet 3 inches Ijeam, about 3 feet keel 

 to gunwale amidships, with oars 14 feet 6 inches long. 



Given by Cragin & Sheldon, boatbuilders, Boston, 

 Massachusetts. 



MAINE PEAPOD, 1883 

 Rigged Model, usnm 56864 



The Maine peapod was a double-ended rowing- 

 sailing boat developed about 1870 at North Haven, 

 Maine, for use in the lobster fishery. The building 

 of this type of boat finally centered at Jonesport, 

 Maine, and it became well-known on the Maine coast 

 as a safe and handy small rowing boat. The type 

 was built lapstrake. caravel, or strip planked; and 

 there was much \-ariation in the model; but the boats 

 were commonly around 1 5 feet long, though a few 

 w-ere as long as 18 feet. This model is of a type also 

 employed by lighthouse tenders on the Maine coast. 

 Many peapods, though primarily a rowing tvpe, were 

 fitted to sail. 



The model shows a double-ended, lapstrake- 

 planked, keel, open rowing-sailing boat having a 

 strong sheer, straight keel with some drag, a curved 

 and upright stem and stern, with rudder mounted on 

 post, and a sharp entrance and run. The midsection 

 is formed with a rising straight floor, firm round bilge, 

 and flaring topside. Cat-rigged with a single gaff- 

 sail having a single halyard from an iron crane at 

 masthead. The boat has two thwarts widely spaced 

 so that the amidships is left clear to handle lobster 

 pots. These boats were often rowed standing, and 

 for this long-shanked iron oarlocks were fitted. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot, for a boat 

 15 feet at gunwale, 4 feet 6 inches beam, 1 foot 6 inches 

 depth, fitted with a 14-foot mast 14-foot boom and 

 6-foot gaff. 



Given by U. S. Fish Commission. 



JONESPORT PEAPOD, 1885 

 Rigged Model, usnm 57561 



This model represents a type of peapod once popular 

 at Jonesport, Maine, and employed in the alongshore 

 lobster fishery, working among the ledges where a 

 large boat would be in danger. A burdensome boat, 

 with fine ends, the type is said to ha\e been swift, 

 having been modeled particularly for sailing, but it 

 was also capable of being rowed easily. The model 



shows a double-ended, keel, lapstrake, open boat 

 having strong sheer; a sharp entrance and run, the 

 latter the finer of the t^vo; a straight keel with much 

 wood outside the rabbet and some drag; a straight 

 raking sternpost with rudder hung on it; a curved and 

 rather upright stem; and the midsection with slightly 

 rising straight floor, low round bilge, and flaring 

 topside. The two thwarts arc widely spaced to make 

 room amidships for lobster pots. The mast thwart is 

 well forw-ard. Rigged with the single loose-footed 

 spritsail common to the type. 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot, for a boat 

 measuring 1 5 feet over gunwales, 4 feet 9 inches beam, 

 and 1 foot 10 inches depth, mast 13 feet long and 

 11 feet 6 inches above its thwart, and spritsail 12 feet 

 6 inches long. Fitted with thole-pins and one pair 

 of oars. 



Model gi\-en by U. S. Fish Commission. 



MUSCONGUS BAY SLOOP, 1880 

 Rigged Model, usnm 55795 



This model represents a class of centerboard sloops 

 once employed in the \icinity of Muscongus Bay, 

 Maine, in the shore and lobster fisheries. ^Vith clip- 

 per bow and counter stern, they were originalh' built 

 at Friendship, Bristol, and Bremen, Maine, but the 

 building of the type spread along the coast in the 

 1880's and 1890's. These sloops were the forerunners 

 of the better known Friendship sloops, which they 

 resembled in rig and abo\-e-water appearance. The 

 Muscongus Bay sloops were built with either caravel 

 or lapstrake planking on the same model, and this 

 rigged model, though finished cara\'el, was evidently 

 intended to represent a lapstrake boat, judging by 

 the model builder's use of a lower moulding on the 

 sheer strake. These boats, which had a fine reputation 

 for speed and seaworthiness, ranged in size from 16 

 to about 26 feet length at gunwale and carried a jib- 

 and-mainsail rig. 



The model shows a rather deep centerboard sloop 

 having a straight keel with some drag, raking post and 

 short counter stern ending in a raking V-shaped 

 transom (sometimes this was elliptical), and a raking 

 stem with a simple longhead supported by trail knees. 

 The midsection has a sharply rising straight floor, an 

 easy round bilge, and an upright or slighdy flaring 

 topsides. The entrance is long and sharp, the run 

 well formed and of moderate length, and the sheer 

 very strong. Small boats had an oval cockpit; the 

 larger boats, as shown in the model, had a trunk cabin. 

 These boats usuallv had live wells on each side of the 



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