keel rabbet, moderate sheer, rather sharp and convex 

 ends, and a midsection formed with a slightly rising 

 straight floor, hard round bila;e, and shghtly flaring; 

 topside. 



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

 measuring 31 feet moulded length at gunwale, 8 feet 

 moulded beam, and about 2 feet 8 inches moulded 

 depth. These boats resembled the Gloucester seine 

 boats in both form and arrangement, but are slightly 

 more burden.some than those used in the mackerel 

 fishery in New England. 



Given by Alexander Ceruti. Millville. Florida. 



FLORIDA SHRIMP BOAT, 1933 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 312757 



A shrimping boat was built from this model in 

 1933 at Tarpon Springs, on the west coast of Florida, 

 and 40 or 50 boats are said to have been built on it 

 before 1943. Powered with automobile engines, and 

 good carriers for their length, these boats usually 

 have a small trunk cabin forward. 



The half-model represents a launch-type fishing boat 

 having a long, sharp entrance and a short full run 

 rather straight sheer, an upright and somewhat 

 curved stem rabbet, a flat and slightly raking transom, 

 and a midsection showing a rising straight floor, 

 slack bilge, and rather upright topside. 



Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot. The boat 

 was 34 feet 3 inches moulded length at gunwale, and 

 10 feet beam. 



Given by Philip A. Sawyer, St. Augustine, Florida. 



NEW ORLEANS LUGGER, about 1890 

 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 311218 



A lugger was built from this half-model, about 

 1890, by Henry Frentz at Bilo.xi, Mississippi, to 

 engage in the shrimp and other shore fisheries. This 

 type of centerboard, shoal-draft boat, rigged with 

 one mast and a large dipping lug sail, was popularly 

 known as the "New Orleans lugger." This type is 

 also represented by a rigged model (usnm 76267) in the 

 Watercraft Collection. The boats had a great local 

 reputation for speed and seaworthiness, and could 

 sail very close to the wind. 



The half-model shows a shoal, centerboard hull 

 having a straight keel with slight drag, bold, sweeping 

 sheer, upright and slightly curved stem, and a slightly 

 raking post and transom, with rudder hung outboard. 

 The stern is broad and the beam is carried well 

 forward, so the bow at deck is rather round and full; 

 the greatest beam at rail is forward of midlength. 



The entrance is short, slightly hollow, and sharp 

 The run is rather long and easy. The plank keel was 

 wide at the centerboard slot and tapered to bow and 

 stern. The midsection shows slightly rising floors 

 carried out straight and an easy bilge, coming plumb 

 in the topsides. The bow sections are convex and 

 without hollow; the run is hollow just forward of the 

 post; and the transom is heart-shaped. The vessel 

 is caravel planked. 



Scale of the model is % inch to the foot, for a vessel 

 about 33 feet 3 inches on deck, 1 1 feet 4 inches moulded 

 ijeam, 3 feet 2 inches moulded depth, and drawing 

 about 2 feet 3 inches at post. 



Given by George Frentz, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1936. 



NEW ORLEANS LUGGER, about 1893 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76267 



This model represents the type of lug-rigged fishing 

 boat, having a centerboard hull; once employed at 

 and near New Orleans and commonly called the 

 "New Orleans lugger"; it is the only known type of 

 American fishing boat that had a dipping lug sail in 

 the 19th century. A half-model (usnm 311218) of 

 one of these luggers, in the Watercraft Collection, 

 is for a smaller boat than this one. These boats were 

 very weatherly and swift. The range of length was 

 18 to 45 feet long. 



The rigged model is of a caravel-planked center- 

 board hull, partially decked and having a large 

 oval-shaped cockpit with a cuddy under a flush deck 

 forward, entered through a slide companionway. 

 The cockpit is partly covered with hatch covers and 

 partitioned with pen boards. The entrance is rather 

 full, with the sides at deck level rather straight fore- 

 and-aft, in plan. The run is long and easy; the keel, 

 a wide plank, is straight with some drag; the stern is 

 nearly upright and is finished with a wide, heart- 

 shaped transom, with the rudder hung outboard; 

 and the stem is nearly straight and upright. The 

 midsection shows a rising, straight floor, firm bilge, 

 and upright topside. 



The mast stands well abaft the stem; to it a single 

 large, loose-footed dipping lug is fitted. The tack 

 travels on an iron horse across the bow and the sheet 

 travels on another iron horse across the stern (by 

 belaying the sheet and tack to windward it was not 

 necessary to dip the lug in making short tacks in 

 confined waters). 



Scale of the model, which represents a large boat of 

 the type, is 1 inch to the foot, for a boat 40 feet 6 

 inches at gunwale, 12 feet 6 inches beam, 4 feet 9 



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