straight, and upright stem; sharp entrance and short 

 run; straight sides with moderate flare; a wide stern 

 with a flat and raking transom; and the bottom much 

 cambered fore-and-aft and fitted with bow and stern 

 skegs, the former large. On the stern is mounted a 

 platform for the nets. Fitted with two thwarts and 

 tholes. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot, for a boat 

 20 feet 6 inches at gunwale, 7 feet 9 inches beam, and 

 19^2 inches deep amidships. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



FLORIDA SHARPIE SCHOONER, 1892 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76292 



A large schooner-rigged sharpie was built from this 

 half-model at Tampa, Florida, in 1891-92. This 

 vessel was to be employed in the Gulf fisheries of that 

 port, serving as a "run boat" to carry the catch from 

 the "fishing ranches" to the Tampa market. Similar 

 schooners were employed on the Florida east coast, 

 in the Spanish mackerel fishery. The type was 

 swift and could carry heavy loads on a light draft. 

 The bottom was planked athwartships, and many of 

 these sharpie schooners had clipper bows and round 

 sterns or had flat, raking transoins. They were us- 

 ually lofty in rig; sorne had gaff-sails and others had 

 leg-of-mutton sails. Sharpies having no headsail 

 and onlv two leg-of-mutton sails, with hulls up to 

 45 feet length, were also employed at Tampa in the 

 fisheries; these usually had round sterns and straight, 

 upright stems. 



The half-model is of a schooner-rigged sharpie, 

 having marked sheer and a long, sharp forebody with 

 the greatest beam well aft of amidships. The run is 



short but easy and somewhat full near the stern. The 

 bottom is cambered heavily fore-and-aft, the camber 

 being greatest toward the stern, which is round and 

 slightly flaring. The stem rabbet is straight and 

 slightly raking. The midsection has flat floor carried 

 straight across, an angular bilge, and a straight and 

 .slightly flaring topside. Scale of the model is ]■, inch 

 to the foot, for a vessel about 50 feet 5 inches on gun- 

 wale, 12 feet 6 inches moulded beam, and 3 feet 11 J^ 

 inches moulded depth. 



Somewhat similar schooners were built for the 

 oyster fishery on the North Carolina Sounds in the 

 period 1890 to 1910. These schooners usually had a 

 short trunk cabin aft and a large hatch between the 

 masts. 



Given by \V. S. Sweat, Tampa, Florida, 1892. 



FLORIDA SPONGE SLOOP, about 1906 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311525 



Emily 



The centerboard sponge sloop Emily was built from 

 this half-model at Tarpon Springs, Florida, for the 

 Florida sponge fishery. 



The model represents a centerboard sloop having 

 some dead flat amidships and rather straight sheer; 

 the keel is straight and its rabbet curves up aft to 

 the V-shaped raking transom, where a skeg is fitted; 

 the stem rabbet is nearly upright; and the entrance 

 is sharp but short and the run short and full. The 

 midsection shows a rising floor, hard bilge, and 

 vertical topsides. 



Scale of the half-model is % inch to the foot, pro- 

 ducing a sloop 26 feet 8 inches moulded length at 





Plan of a Sharpie Fishing Schooner Built at West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1899 for the Spanish mackerel 

 fishery along the Florida reef. As taken off the vessel by the author. 



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