The midsection shows a sharply rising floor and very 

 slack bilge, with sharply flaring topside — the section 

 is an almost perfect V. The entrance is sharp, as is 

 the run, the latter being the finer of the two. 



Scale of the model is cataloged as ]i inch to the foot, 

 which would produce a vessel measuring 33 feet at 

 gunwale, 13 feet beam, 4 feet 6 inches depth to gun- 

 wale, and washboards 12 inches high. Spar dimen- 

 sions at this scale would be foremast above gunwale 

 34 feet 3 inches, mainmast 22 feet 6 inches, fore gaff 5 

 feet, main gaff 4 feet 3 inches, and main boom 1 9 feet 

 8 inches. These spar dimensions show a much shorter 

 mainmast and longer gaffs than appears to have been 

 usual; a sailmaker's drawing and old photographs 

 indicate that these dimensions in a boat of this ap- 

 proximate length commonly were mainmast above 

 gunwale 32 feet 6 inches, foremast 34 feet, fore gaff 

 and main gaff 4 feet, and main boom 20 feet. Due to 



Eastern Catboats and Block Island Boats in 

 harbor, about igoo. {Smithsonian photo ^6^g/-b, 

 Courtesy of the late John Howard Benson.) 



the drag of the keel the mainmast appeared shorter 

 than it actually was, when the l)oats were afloat. 



Details of this model, which include oyster tongs, 

 suggest the cataloged scale is in error and the model 

 may be to a scale of % inch to the foot, making it 

 represent a boat 22 feet 3 inches overall, 8 feet 8 

 inches beam, about 3 feet 3 Inches depth, foremast 22 

 feet 6 inches above the rail cap, mainmast 18 feet 

 (it should be 21 feet 6 inches), main l)oom 13 feet, and 

 gaffs 3 feet (they should be 2 feet) . Boats of this size 

 were once common in this type. 



Made and given by Captain H. C. Chester. Re- 

 stored by Mcrritt Edson, 1958. 



NO MAN'S LAND BOAT, 1882 

 Rigged Model, usnm 25898 



The No Man's Land l)oat, also known as the Vine- 

 yard Sound boat, was once a common form of beach- 

 ing boat on the south side of Cape Cod. It varied 

 somewhat in model. Originally it was a light. 



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