Maine Hampton Boat Under Sail, about 1890. 

 {Photo courtesy Albert Barnes and the Mariners' Museum, 



J\ewport News, J'irginia.) 



inches depth, 3 feet draft with ijoard raised, bowsprit 

 outboard of stem 5 feet 6 inches, mast 20 feet 6 inches, 

 sprit 16 feet, and club 2 feet 6 inches. 

 Given by U. S. Fish Commission. 



MAINE HAMPTON BOAT, 1883 

 Rigged Model, usnm 57031 



This model represents a variation of the Maine 

 Hampton boat from Monhegan Island. It differs 

 from boats of this class in other areas of its range 

 in having the counter stern and elliptical transom 

 seen in half-model usnm 57032 instead of the usual 

 hull profile shown in half-models usnm 54484 and 

 311151; probably the counter was employed most 

 commonly when these boats were built as pleasure 

 craft. 



The model shows a vessel with a sharp entrance, 

 the greatest beam on deck well abaft midlength and 

 the run long and fine. The sheer is marked, the 

 keel is made of plank tapering each way from amid- 



ships, where it is widest, and straight in profile with 

 strong drag. The post is raked and there is a counter 

 of moderate length finishe'd with a raking elliptical 

 transom like that of a contemporary fishing schooner 

 (usually, the::e boats had a raking flat heart-shaped 

 transom, with the rudder hung outboard). The 

 stem is upright and bold. The midsection shows a 

 rising floor, very hollow at garboard, a high and 

 hard bilge, and an upright topside, the forward 

 sections near the bow markedly wall sided, while 

 aft the sections are strongly Y-shaped. 



The rig shown consists of two spritsails, the foresail 

 the largest and loose-footed. The mainsail is boomed. 

 Many boats, as in the model, were fitted with a light 

 bowsprit that could be imshipped; on it was set 

 a jib in fine weather. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot. The boat 

 represented is about average in size for her date — 

 20 feet 6 inches at gunwale, 6 feet beam, 2 ftet 9 

 inches draft with centerboard raised, mainir.ast 

 al)o\-e thwart 1 3 feet 6 inches, foremast above thwart 

 19 feet, bowsprit outside rabbet 5 feet, main boom 

 9 feet. The boat shows the typical arrangement 

 described under half-model usnm 54484. 



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