Centerboard Noank Si.oop of the 

 type used in the lobster fishery on 

 Long Island Sound, 1875 1900. 

 Rigged model USNM 26809. 

 (Smithsonian photo 4^6o^~d.) 



Often fast sailers, they were very similar to the center- 

 board oyster sloops used on Narragansett Bay in the 

 same period; some had the clipper bow shown in this 

 model, others had straight and upright stems; some 

 had the V-transom of the model, others had a short 

 counter or fantail. The model represents a sloop 

 steered with a tiller, but some employed steering gear 

 and wheel. The sloops were commonly rather low- 

 sided, the bulwarks were usually no more than log 

 rails, and the centerboards were large. Usually each 

 sloop could accommodate four men. 

 Given by U. S. Fish Commission. 



LONG ISLAND FISHING SLOOP, 1869 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 315706 



A centerboard fishing sloop, name unknown, was 

 built on this model by John Ewing, in 1869, in the 

 vicinity of East Moriches, Long Island, New York. 

 Sloops of this size and type usually had a large oval 

 cockpit-cabin trunk arrangement and much re- 

 sembled contemporary sloop yachts. They were fast, 

 weatherly and very handy craft; in experienced hands 

 they were seaworthy enough for the oyster and other 

 inshore fisheries in which this sloop was employed. 



The half-model represents a wide, shoal, centerboard 

 sloop having strong sheer, a straight keel with some 

 drag, nearly vertical curved stem rabbet with rounded 



forefoot, raking post, and a sharply raking V-shaped 

 transom. The entrance is long, sharp, and markedly 

 hollow abaft the stem; the run is long, flat and fine. 

 The greatest beam is at midlength, the model showing 

 the "raking midsection" that permits maximum 

 length in both run and entrance. The midsection 

 shows a rising straight floor, a high, firm, round bilge, 

 and a slightly flaring topside. 



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

 had a moulded length on deck of 25 feet 9 inches, 

 moulded beam of 9 feet 6 inches, and a moulded depth 

 of 2 feet 7 inches. The frames were spaced 12 inches 

 apart, the centerboard was 7 feet long, with the 

 pivot about 7 feet 8 inches from the stem rabbet. 



Rigged with a single, large jib and a gaff-mainsail; 

 the bowsprit was of plank and long outboard; the 

 centerboard was on the centerline of the hull, and the 

 stem was straight and unadorned. 



Gift of Mrs. Otis A. Palmer, East Moriches, Long 

 Island, New York. 



LONG ISLAND FISHING SLOOP, 1889 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 315696 



Estelle 



The centerboard fishing sloop Estelle was built on 

 this model in the vicinity of Jamesport, Long Island, 

 New York, in 1 889, by M. Corwin. The model is of a 



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