the stem. The stem rabbet is curved and raking-, with 

 a well rounded forefoot. The stern is formed by a flat 

 transom having a marked tumble-home. The en- 

 trance is long and convex, the run is long and very flat. 

 The greatest beam on deck is about a third the length 

 abaft the stem, and the midsection is formed wdth a 

 straight, slightly rising floor, an easy turn of bilge, 

 and a flaring topside. The dead rise dies out as it 

 approaches the stern. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot, for a moulded 

 length overall of 27 feet 6 inches, moulded beam 6 

 feet 1 inch, and a moulded depth 2 feet 1 inch. The 

 boat had skeg and was built to 30 feet overall length 

 by lengthening the spacing of the mould stations. 



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

 Island, New York. 



SHARPIE LAUNCH, 1947 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 315699 



Sharpie launches have had periods of popularity 

 on the shores of Long Island and Connecticut. This 



half-model represents a 23}i>-fool sharpie launch de- 

 signed in 1947 by Otis A. Palmer of East Moriches, 

 Long Island. A number of launches of this type, 

 which is cheap and eOkient and very suitable for 

 fisheries in protected waters, have been built in this 

 area. In 1949 Palmer built the Sassafras, 20 feet 

 overall, for which a speed of 22 miles per hour was 

 claimed; the engine was a 4-cylindcr 144-cubic-inch 

 Scripps, the propeller a 13- .\ 8}^-inch narrow blade. 

 Some of these boats have a trunk cabin forward. 



The half-model is of a square-sterned sharpie hull 

 having moderate sheer, a rockered flat ijottom, raking 

 and curved stem rabbet, and a flat transom set at 

 slight rake. The entrance is long and sharp. The 

 greatest beam on the Ijottom is slightly abaft mid- 

 length, the greatest beam at gunwale a little forward 

 of midlength. The boat is somewhat like a dory in 

 general design. The midsection is formed with a flat 

 bottom, an angular Ijilgc, and stronglv flaring straight 

 sides. 



Centerboard Sloop used as car- 

 r>'-away boat in the menhaden 

 fishery on Long Island Sound in 

 the I Syo's. Rigged model USNM 

 57029. {Smithsonian jiholo ^j6o^-e.) 



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