boat, though some early bugeyes, like the log canoes, 

 had keels instead of centerboards. This model is of 

 the period where a keel might have been employed. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot: the vessel 

 would measure 48 feet at rail, 12 feet beam, and 4 

 feet in depth; bowsprit 13 feet 6 inches long outside 

 knightheads, foremast 38 feet and mainmast 38 feet 

 6 inches above deck, main-topmast 7 feet 6 inches 

 total length, main boom 25 feet, main gaflf 1 1 feet 6 

 inches, fore boom 16 feet 9 inches, and fore gafT 11 

 feet. 



Like most of her class this \essel had log rails and 

 prominent knightheads. 



Given by T. B. Ferguson. Restored by Eugene 

 Beach, 1958. 



decked, is of a bugeye though the size represents that 

 of a canoe. 



The model shows a double-ended hull ha\'ing a 

 straight keel, raking sternpost with rudder hung out- 

 board on it, raking stem with a long head, marked 

 sheer, sharp entrance, and a long and rather easy run. 

 The beam is greatest forward of midlength, and the 

 midsection shows a rising floor, very easy and slack 

 bilge, and a somewhat flaring topside. The keel out- 

 side the rabbet, is very deep (1 foot along the bottom) 

 and takes the place of the later centerboard. The 

 masts rake sharply; the bowsprit "hogs" down mark- 

 edly at its outer end. The deck arrangement shows 

 a short trunk cabin with a hatch built into its forward 

 end, then the mainmast, dredge winches and rollers, 



Schooner - Rigged Chesapeake 

 Bay Bugeye, 1865-75, referred to 

 locally as "square-rigged." Rigged 

 model USNM 42757. (Smithsonian 

 photo 4560J-J.) 



CHESAPEAKE BAY BUGEYE, SCHOONER- 

 RIGGED, 1865-75 

 Rigged Model, usnm 55807 



This model of a small schooner- rigged, or "square 

 rigged," bugeye of about 1865-75, having a keel 

 instead of a centerboard, represents the transition be- 

 tween the small log canoe of the Bay and the larger, 

 decked bugeyes. This model, being completely 



main hatch, foremast, and heel bitt. These vessels 

 steered with a tiller. They early obtained a reputa- 

 tion for speed and seaworthiness. 



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

 would have been 35 feet long at deck or log rail, 33 

 feet on the keel. 7 feet 6 inches beam, 3 feet depth in 

 hold, bowsprit outboard of knightheads 9 feet 6 inches, 

 foremast above deck 25 feet, mainmast above deck 



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