The half-model represents a double-ended canoe- 

 like vessel of shoal draft, fitted with a large center- 

 board nearly amidships and having moderate sheer, 

 straight keel with some drag, raking stem and stern 

 rabbets, long pointed head, rudder hung outboard on 

 the sternpost, a sharp, well-formed entrance and run, 

 apd midsection with slightly rising straight floor and 

 full round bilge carried to deck, so the topsides flare 

 somewhat. The run is longer and sharper than the 

 entrance. Greatest beam is about at midlength. 



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

 bugeye was 45 feet 7 inches on deck, 13 feet 6 inches 

 moulded beam, 3 feet 1 inch moulded depth, and 

 drew 3 feet at post and 2 feet 8 inches at bow; the 

 centerboard was 1 1 feet long and 4 feet deep. 



Given by E. James Tull, shipbuilder, Pocomoke 

 City, Maryland. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY BUGEYE, 1885 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76256 



Lillie Sterling 



This rigged model represents the Lillie Sterling, 

 which was built on the builder's half-model usnm 

 76290 at Pocomoke City, Maryland, in 1885. It 

 shows the typical deck arrangement and rig of the 

 bugeye of the Sterling's size and date of build. These 

 two models brought an award to the builder at the 

 World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. 



The bugeye rig is more nearly related to the schooner 

 than to the ketch rig. The foresail is slightly larger 

 than the after or mainsail; the masts are nearly of 

 equal length; and the distribution of sail area in 

 the bugeye is very like that of the old pilot-boat 

 schooner rig. The sails are jib headed, and the masts 

 rake sharply, with two shrouds to a side on the fore- 

 mast and one to a side on the main. 



Scale of model is % inch to the foot, representing 

 a bugeye 42 feet in length, in which the bowsprit 

 extends 10 feet outboard the stem rabbet at deck, 

 the foremast is 46 feet deck to truck, mainmast 40 

 feet deck to truck, jib club 5 feet long, fore boom 16 

 feet 3 inches, main boom 22 feet 6 inches long, and 

 centerboard 11 feet long. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY BUGEYE, 1893 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311015 



Triumph 



The large framed bugeye Triumph was built from 

 this model at Tilghman's Island, Maryland, in 1893 

 by John B. Harrison and represents the highest 



development of the type. A typical large bugeye 

 employed in the oyster fishery on the Chesapeake, 

 with moderate sail area and graceful appearance, 

 the Triumph is said to have been very swift. When 

 built she did not have the "patent stern," and the 

 model shows only the "drake's tail," the projecting 

 pink-like structure at the stern enclosing the head 

 of the rudderpost and intended to give the rudder 

 support and protection, that has been a character- 

 istic of the bugeye type in recent years. 



The half-model shows a canoe-like doui)le-cnded 

 centerboard hull to deck and to moulded lines, 

 having bold sheer, straight keel with small drag, and 

 raking stem and post, with the stem rabbet slightly 

 rounded at forefoot. The head is very long and 

 pointed, the rudder is hung on the post, and the 

 midsection shows a rising straight floor, round easy 

 bilge, and slightly rounded topside. 



A low, log rail is surmounted by a low open rail 

 made of a wooden cap supported by short, closely 

 spaced pipe stanchions with a bolt pa.ssing through 

 each. A small trunk cabin is aft. The masts rake 

 about lYi inches to the foot. 



Scale of half-model is '2 inch to the foot; the 

 Triumph was about 65 feet long at deck, 18 feet 2 

 inches moulded beam, 5 feet 3)^ inches moulded 

 depth, and drew about 3 feet 6 inches with center- 

 board raised. 



Given by John B. Harrison, shipbuilder, TUgh- 

 man's Island, Maryland. 



CHESAPEAKE BAY SKIPJACK, 1897 

 Rigged Model, usnm 312828 



Carrie Price 



The Chesapeake Bay skipjack, or "bateau," Carrie 

 Price was built at Holland's Island, Maryland, in 

 1897 by James H. Price for an oyster dredge. 



The model shows her to have been a rather typical 

 early type of skipjack having a long, sharp entrance 

 and very long and flat run; the stem at rabbet is 

 straight and raking; the transom is flat and rakes 

 sharply. The sheer is slight. The rudder is hung 

 outboard of the transom on a false sternpost which also 

 supports the long skeg. The keel is straight and 

 there is moderate drag; the centerboard is long 

 and shallow. The midsection is formed with very 

 slightly rising bottom, low angular chine, and straight 

 flaring topside. The chine is low forward, being be- 

 low the load waterline. The deadrise of the bottom 

 increases from amidships each way to bow and stern. 



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