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Plan of the Key West Smackee Jeff Brown built at Key West, Florida, 1883. Taken off the builder's half- 

 model USNM 76086. Deck arrangement and spar dimensions from the rigged model USNM 76258. 



shaped transom of marked width, sharp convex 

 entrance, long sharp run, medium sheer, low bul- 

 warks, and flush deck. The midsection shows a 

 sharply rising straight floor, high easy bilge, and 

 flaring topside. The flare forward is moderate. 

 A large trunk cabin is placed well aft; the model 

 shows two sponging dinghies stowed bottom up on 

 deck. The model is schooner rigged with three 

 lower sails; the foresail is boomless. The.se boats 

 usually had a large deck bo.\ in which there was a 

 charcoal brazier or fireplace to serve as the galley. 

 When sponge-fishing, the schooner usually worked 

 two dinghies only; when in the turtle fishery, only 

 one boat was usually carried. 



Scale of model is ^i inch to the foot; the schooner 

 was 54 feet at rail, 14 feet 6 inches beam, 5 feet 

 depth, bowsprit outside rabbet 10 feet 6 inches, fore- 

 mast 43 feet 6 inches, mainmast 44 feet above deck, 

 main topmast heel to truck 14 feet, fore gaff 12 feet, 

 main boom 30 feet, main gaflflS feet 6 inches, dinghies 

 13 feet long and 4 feet 6 inches beam, and sponge 

 hooks shown 17 and 25 feet long. 



Given by commissioners for the Bahama Islands, 

 International Fisheries Exposition, London, 1883. 



FLORIDA CAT-RIGGED SHARPIE OYSTER BOAT, 



about 1880 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76272 



This model represents a sharpie, or "flattie," cat- 

 rigged boat built about 1880 for the local oyster fish- 

 ery at Cedar Keys, Florida. The sharpies built at 

 Cedar Keys were of a wide range in size; from about 

 18 feet to nearly 40 feet at gunwale; the smaller boats 



were 1 -masted and cat or sloop rigged; the larger 

 sharpies were 2-masted sharpie rig or leg-of-mutton 

 schooners. Generally, the sharpies built on the west 

 coast of Florida were less well finished than those 

 built elsewhere. 



The model shows a wide, sharpie hull having strong 

 sheer, the greatest beam unusually far forward, the 

 bottom cambered fore and aft, straight stem with a 

 slight tumble-home, slightly raking transom, skeg 

 fitted aft and rudder hung outboard, and moderate 

 flare to sides. There is a deck forward and wide 

 washboards with coamings along the sides, one thwart 

 amidships, and a large centerboard amidships. The 

 boat is fitted to row. Although the sloop rig, usually 

 with a jib and gaff-mainsail, was most common in 

 these boats in the 1890"s, it is rigged catboat fashion 

 with single boomed gaff'-sail. The model represents 

 an unusually ugly boat of the type. 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot, producing a 

 sharpie 20 feet on the gunwales, 11 feet beam, 21 

 inches depth, mast 17 feet 4 inches above the gun- 

 wales, boom 19 feet 6 inches, gaff" 10 feet, and oars 

 12 feet 3 inches. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FLORIDA SLOOP-RIGGED FISHING SHARPIE, 



1880 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76273 



This model is of one of a class of sharpies once com- 

 mon in the Florida Gulf Coast fisheries in the vicinity 

 of St. Andrews and Panama City. These boats ranged 

 in length from about 16 to 22 feet on the gunwale and 

 were either open or half decked. They were unusual 



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