This model was obtained at Friendship Maine, 

 1883, from FrankHn Thompson, and was given by 

 U. S. Fish Commission. Restored by Merritt Edson, 

 1958. 



MAINE HAMPTON BOAT, about 1900 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311150 



Egretta 



The Hampton boat Eoretta was built from this model 

 by Frank Johnson at Bailey's Island, Maine, about 

 1900, and anotiier boat was later built from her 

 moulds. 



The model, which represents a somewhat larger 

 Hampton boat than was usual in Casco Bay, is made 

 to a scale of Y^ inch to the foot, giving a vessel 27 feet 

 2% inches overall, 8 feet 6^2 inches moulded beam 

 and 8 feet 7, '4 inches extreme beam, and drawing 

 about 2 feet 9 inches with centerboard raised. The 

 Egrelta carried the usual Hampton boat 2-mast sprit- 

 sail rig without jila. The boats from this model were 

 clench-built. 



The half-model shows the overhanging counter 

 which some Hamptons had as early as 1882; it repre- 

 sents moulded lines and shows the exaggerated sharp- 

 ness of the bow at plank-sheer that usually character- 

 ized the Casco Bay Hampton boat. The entrance is 

 long and sharp with rather wall-sided sections well 

 forward and the greatest beam at the gunwale well 

 abaft midlength, but moving forward at each level 

 line in the model as the rabbet is approached; the 

 total shift of greatest beam between the lowest lift, or 

 level line, in the model and the greatest beam at gun- 

 wale being 4 feet 6 inches toward the stern. The run 

 is long and very fine, beginning well forward of amid- 

 ships. The stem profile is rounded and the sternpost 

 and transom both rake, the transom, which has the 

 greater rake, is somewhat U-shaped and flat across. 

 These boats had foredecks 8 feet long and after decks 

 4 feet long; the side decks were about 12 inches, with 

 the cockpit thus formed having a low oval coaming. 

 The rudder post came up through the counter in the 

 after deck. This model shows the last developments 

 in the Casco Bay sailing Hampton boats. 



Given by Frank Johnson, Bailey's Island, Maine, 

 1936. 



MAINE HAMPTON BOAT, 1900-01 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311151 



This half-model represents two boats, said to have 

 been smart sailers, built at Orr's Island, Maine, for 



the Casco Bay fishery. They were modeled by Her- 

 bert Wilson and built by Dennis Wilson, it is believed 

 in 1900-01. 



This half-model represents the common type of 

 fishing Hampton boat of Casco Bay, having a straight, 

 rather upright stem, and a raking post and flat tran- 

 som with the rudder hung outboard. The sheer is 

 lively and the keel is a plank on the flat, wide amid- 

 ships and tapered toward each end. The centerboard 

 is slightly forward of midlength. The mid.section has 

 hollow floors and a firm bilge, the forward sections 

 being rather U-shaped; the run is long and extraor- 

 dinarily fine, beginning well forward of amidships. 

 The greatest beam at gunwale is well abaft mid- 

 length, but moves progressively forward as the lifts, or 

 level lines, approach the rabbet; this is an exaggerated 

 shift, the distance from greatest beam at gunwale to 

 that at the lowest level line being about 10 feet. 



Scale of the model is % inch to the foot, to repre- 

 sent the moulded form of a boat approximately 22 

 feet long, 1){ feet beam, and drawing nearly 3 feet 

 with centerboard raised. 



Given by Dennis Wilson, Orr's Island, Maine, 1936. 



NEW ENGLAND BOAT, 1876 

 Rigged Model, usnm 26585 



Little Maud 



This model represents a variation in the Hampton 

 boat that was once common on the New England 

 coast from Massachusetts to eastern Maine. This 

 style of Hampton boat, with its caravel-planked hull, 

 had a short vogue. The hull had much the appear- 

 ance of the contemporary fishing schooner, which 

 prol^ably influenced the type. It reputedly sailed well 

 and was seaworthy. Boats of this model but with flat 

 heart-shaped transoms and rudder outboard, and with 

 rather upright, straight stems and lapstrake hull, 

 were once ired at Rockport, Massachusetts, foi the 

 lobster fishery. 



These vessels had a strong sheer, straight keel with 

 some drag, raking straight or flaring stem, raking post, 

 and V-shaped transom with rudder post through its 

 heel, or a very short counter with elliptical transom. 

 The entrance was sharp, long and often rather hellow 

 at the forefoot. The run was long and very fine. The 

 midsection was farmed with a straight, rising tloor, 

 high and moderately high bilge, and tunible-home in 

 the topside. 



The model shows a long foredeck, oval cotkpii,or 

 standing room, short after deck; steering witli a tiller. 

 The rig is that of the Haniplon boat — two spritsails, 



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