Both masts were supported by the thwarts, and the 

 sprits were relatively long, so the sails as a rule had 

 peak. Some boats carried a short plank bowsprit 

 that unshipped; on this a small jib was set flying in 

 light winds. There were variations in the rig of 

 Hampton boats on the Maine coast, but the one 

 described was by far the most common. 



The half-model is of an open, centerboard boat, lap- 

 strake planked, the plank keel is wide alongside the 

 centerboard and tapered toward bow and stern; it is 

 straight in profile and extends only a little outside the 

 rabbet. The keel has much drag; the stem is slightly 

 rounded and raking; the sternpost is raking, with a 

 flat, raking transom and the rudder hung outboard; 

 the sheer is strong, the midsection shows a hollow, 

 rising floor, a high and hard bilge, and a nearly 

 upright topside; the entrance is long and very sharp; 

 and the run is rather short but very well formed. 



Model has been repaired and a lift added below 

 the plank keel by error, it being supposed that the 

 wide, moulded plank keel was the top of a missing lift. 



MAINE HAMPTON BOAT, 1880 

 Rigged Model, usnm 57032 



This model represents a variati(jii in the Maine 

 Hampton boat type once employed at Matinicus 

 Island, Maine, in the shore and lobster fisheries. 

 Unlike most boats of the type, the Matinicus Island 

 boats had a single mast. Swift sailers and good sea 

 boats, they were usually lapstrake planked. They 

 were fitted to row, and some towed a small skiff when 

 lobstering. 



The model shows a Maine Hampton boat hull 

 having a centerboard, side decks, strong sheer, straight 

 plank keel with some drag, nearly straight and up- 

 right stem, raking post, short counter ending with a 

 raking elliptical transom, long and very sharp en- 

 trance, and a long and very fine run. The midsec- 

 tion shows a rising floor with hollow at the garboard, 

 a firm round bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the 

 topside. The model appears unusual in having a 

 counter; most contemporary descriptions and some 

 half-models show that these boats commonly had a 



Plan of a Maine Hampton Bo.\t of 1879, Built at Phippsburg, Maine. Lines taken off builder's half-model 

 USNM 54484, the oldest of the type yet found. 



This model is less sharp at deck forward and not so 

 wall sided forward as later boats of this type whose 

 half-models are in the Watercraft Collection. 



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

 uring, to inside of plank, about 21 feet 10 inches at 

 gunwale moulded length, 7 feet 11 inches moulded 

 beam, 3 feet 9 inches moulded depth, rabbet to gun- 

 wale, 22 feet 5 inches overall length, and 3 feet 9 

 inches draft at post. 



Given by Charles H. Mclntire, Phippsburg, Maine, 

 1879. 



flat, raking, and rather heart-shaped transom with 

 the rudder hung outboard. The rigged model some- 

 what resembles the builder's half-model (usnm 

 311150, p. 257) of the Egretta, which has a counter. 



The model shows a U-shaped seat at the stern, 

 ballast platformed over, and a fish-room made with 

 pen-boards amidships. The rig is that of a spritsail 

 jib-and-mainsail boat, with a large rather square- 

 headed spritsail having no boom but a short club 

 at the clew, and a jib set up on a bowsprit. 



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

 21 feet at gunwale, 6 feet 3 inches beam, 3 feet 6 



255 



