nioderaie drag, a raking straight stem rabbet, and a 

 raJiing, flat transom. She has a longhead, trails, and 

 head rails. The midsection is forined by a rising 

 straight floor, an angular, or chine, bilge, and a 

 straight and flaring topside. The rail is formed of a 

 cap with pipe stanchions set on a log rail; the rudder 

 is hung outboard on a false sternpost; the mast is 

 stepped well forward, with some rake. The Iroat is 

 "half-decked." with a large cockpit and a small 

 portable cabin trunk, which was placed over the for- 

 ward end of the cockpit in w'inter oyster tonging but 

 was usually removed for the summer fishery. The 

 entrance is rather long, sharp and convex, the rim 

 easy and quite straight. .\ large centerboard is 

 housed amidships. The rig is jii) and mainsail, 

 the latter a leg-of-mutton fitted with a laced boom. 

 Model is painted as the actual boat. 



The Jesse U'illaid was 25 feet 6 inches long at the 

 rail cap, 8 feet 8 inches extreme beam, and drew 

 1 foot 8J4 inches at the sternpost, with centerboard 

 raised. Model was constructed from plans taken off 



the l)oat and shows all important details of construc- 

 tion. Scale of model is ji inch to the foot. 

 Made for the museum i)y Merritt .'\. Edson, Jr. 



RACING LAUNCH, 1902 

 Builder's H.alf-Model, usnm 311239 



Fairbanks No. 2 



The racing launch Fairbanks .\n. 2 was built from 

 this half-model in 1902 at Oxford. Maryland, by 

 Charles \V. Langdon. A champion racing launch 

 in her day, she was powered with a Smalley engine, 

 made by the Fairbanks Scale C^ompany and rated 

 at 12 to 15 horsepower; the boat is reputed to have 

 reached a speed of nearly 26 statute miles per hour. 

 This boat was used as a model for the Chesapeake 

 Bay fishing launches, now known as "Hooper Island 

 boats"; these, until very recent years had practically 

 the same features of design, except that they had a 

 little more beam and depth in proportion to their 



Chesape.\ke Bay Skipj.\ck, or 

 "crab scraper," Jess Willard, built 

 near Deal Island, Maryland, in 

 1 91 5. Rigged model USNM 

 316629. {Smithsonian photo 4^606-g.) 



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