

entrance, and a long, easy run. The midsection had 

 a rising floor, high and rather easy bilge, and sUghtly 

 flaring topside. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot; the boat was 

 24 feet 3 inches at gunwale, 10 feet 3 inches beam, and 

 2 feet 6 inches moulded depth. It has a jib and main- 

 sail rig, and the spar dimensions, which are also re- 

 corded as those of the Terror, are mainmast 27 feet 

 6 inches above deck, topmast heel to truck 11 feet 9 

 inches, bowsprit outside stem 12 feet, main boom 26 

 feet 6 inches, and main ajaff 12 feet 9 inches. 



The model, which shows an elliptical cockpit and 

 trunk, appears to have been built with some reference 

 to the half-model of the Terror (usnm 76083), but it 

 does not have the cuddy and there are other de- 

 partures. Aijout 1890 sharpie sloops 24-28 feet in 

 length became popular as small spongers at Key 

 West. Resembling in hull and rig the small half- 

 decked sloop yachts of 1870-80, they represent biu 

 one of the many types of small sloops employed in the 

 Florida sponge fishery. 



Given bv U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



KEY WEST SPONGE SLOOP, 1881 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76083 



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The small centerboard sloop Terror was iiuilt from 

 this model at Key West. Florida, in 1881, for the 

 sponge fishery on the Florida reef and among the 

 Keys, where shoal draft was desirable. She was simi- 

 lar, in hull, rig, and arrangement of deck to many of 

 the small sloop yachts of 1870-80, which apparently 

 inspired this design. The craft employed in the Key 

 West sponge fishery were not homogeneous in type. 

 Some were old yachts, some were centerboard schoon- 

 ers of small size, some were sharpie sloops, some were 

 centerboard sloops similar to Terror, while others were 

 small keel sloops of the same model and rig as the 

 Key West smackee and Bahama sloops. 



The Terror was a shoal centerboard sloop hax'ing a 

 nearly plumb stem, raking and V-shaped flat transom, 

 a long and sharp entrance, and a rather short run. 

 The hull had a skeg and the after sections were slightly 

 hollow at the garboard. The midsection showed a 

 rising floor and an easy bilge. The rudder post was 

 inboard, entering the hull at the heel of the transom. 



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