Scale of model is 1 inch lo (he foot, giving a moulcied 

 length at gunwale 23 feet 4 inches, moulded beam at 

 gunwale 7 feet 2 inches and at chine 4 feet 6 inches, 

 and moulded depth 2 feet 9 inches. Width of bottom 

 is 3 feet 8 inches at transom. 



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

 Island, New ^'ork. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY LOG CANOE, about 1875 

 Rigged Model, usnm 25003 



This is a rather crude model of an early type 

 Chesapeake Bay log canoe in which a keel was used 

 instead of a centerboard; the model apparently 

 represents a canoe, relatively small for the type, 

 from the vicinity cf Tilghman's Island, Maryland. 

 These canoes, built cf two or more logs hewn to 

 shape and bolted together to form a shoal, double- 

 ended, canoe-like hull and rigged in various fashions, 

 were used for longing oysters, crabbing and fishing 

 on the lower Chesapeake Bay. 



The model represents a double-ended, shoal- 

 bodied hull having washboards along the sides, keel 

 straight with much wood below the rabbet line, 

 straight raking sternpost with rudder hung outboard, 

 curved and slightly flaring stem, and a short bowsprit 

 secured to the foredeck. Entrance and run are 

 sharp, the run the finer of the two. Midsection 

 formed with slightly rising straight floor, firm round 

 bilge and slightly flaring topside. Rigged with small 

 jib and two leg-of-mutton sails, of which the foresail 

 is the more lofty; on sharply raking masts. 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot; the canoe repre- 

 .sented was 27 feet 6 inches long, 5 feet 3 inches beam, 

 2 feet 9 inches height of side, foremast 20 feet 3 inches 

 above thwart, mainmast 16 feet 3 inches. Boat 

 shown with oars 9 feet long and tongs 17 feet long, 

 with heads 2 feet wide. 



Given by T. B. Ferguson, Baltimore, Maryland. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY LOG CANOE, about 1890 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 312328 



Oyster Creek 



The standing-rig canoe Oyster Creek was built from 

 this half-model on Taylor's Island, Maryland, by 

 Joseph T. Spicer about 1890. This canoe was of log 

 construction, and the half-model is made to meet the 

 requirements of this mode of building, in that the 

 lifts are vertical rather than, as in normal construc- 

 tion, horizontal. There are three vertical lifts, indi- 

 cating a "five-log canoe.'" with a center log and two 



wing logs on each side. The Oyster Creek was reputed 

 to be a fast sailer on the wind and was employed in 

 the oyster and crab fisheries. The canoes of this 

 class were '"half-decked,"' having a long cockpit with 

 narrow side decks and short end decks, and a cuddy 

 in a small trunk forward; they were used in tonging 

 and dredging oysters as well as for crabbing and 

 transportation. 



The half-model indicates a canoe-like hull with a 

 large centerboard. ha\ing a moderately sharp en- 

 trance and a fine run; the midsection is slightly for- 

 ward of midlength o\erall. The model shows a 

 moderate sheer, straight keel, and a straight-raking 

 post and stem. The midsection shows straight rising 

 floors carried well out and a high and rather hard 

 bilge. The Oyster Creek had a long, deep, and pointed 

 head like a bugeye and. according to the donor's 

 description, a small trunk cabin forward. She was 

 rigged with two leg-of-mutton sails, the fore the 

 larger, and a single large jib hanked to a stay set up 

 on a short ijowsprit. 



Scale of the half-model is ^i inch to the foot. The 

 model scales 40 feet at gunwale, 8 feet 4 inches ex- 

 treme beam, and 2 feet 9 inches rabbet to gunwale. 



Given by James K. Spicer, Taylor's Island, Dor- 

 chester County, Maryland. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY BUGEYE, SCHOONER- 

 RIGGED, 1860-85 

 Rigged Model, usnm 42757 



This model represents an early bugeye hull with 

 schooner, or "square rig," instead of the standard leg- 

 of-mutton rig. Schooner-rigged bugeyes appear to 

 have had a period of great popularity on the Chesa- 

 peake from 1870 to 1885, and were considered to be 

 faster sailers than those with the leg-of-mutton sail 

 plan. To carry the schooner rig the bugeye hull had 

 to be powerful and stiff, and as the cost was the greater, 

 the leg-of-mutton eventually replaced it, though a few 

 bugeyes retained the square rig until recent years. 



This model illustrates one of these vessels employed 

 in the oyster fishery, complete with winches, or "wind- 

 ers," and with all sails set: large jib, foresail, mainsail, 

 main gaff-topsail, and main-topmast staysail. It 

 shows a double-ended hull having marked sheer, 

 straight keel with some drag, raking post and stem, 

 and longhead. Midsection with slight rise of floor, low 

 and well-rounded bilge, and nearly upright topside. 

 The bow is sharp and the run fine, the latter a little 

 longer and sharper than the entrance. The model 

 appears to be intended to represent a centerboard 



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