short but flat run, strong sheer, straight and raking 

 stem, flat and raking transom with Ijalanced rudder 

 hung outboard. 



The boats were open, but with a u ide gunwale cap, 

 and were fitted with two thwarts, the bow mast 

 thwart and stern sheets usually connected to short 

 side-seats at the fore ends of which was a pen board. 

 The masts were in the usual sharpie position but the 

 sails were battened at the head, so that they appeared 

 to be gaff-sails with gaff-topsails in one, the battens 

 being on each side of the sail and fastened through it. 

 These sharpies were designed to carry heavy loads 

 and had very large rigs, so were fast and powerful 

 boats. An av-erage boat was about 36 feet long, 10 

 feet beam, and 3 feet deep. The lifting of the bowl of 

 the pounds required a very stiflf boat, hence the inarked 

 beam of the pound-net sharpies generally. 



The model is on a scale of 1 inch to the foot; the 

 boat would be 24 feet 9 inches on the gunwales, 9 feet 

 6 inches beam, width of stern 7 feet, depth amidships 

 about 3 feet, foremast 23 feet 3 inches, and mainmast 

 21 feet 6 inches. The boat represented is a sharpie 

 built at Dover Bay, Ohio, where the sharpies were 20 

 to 26 feet long, 7 feet 9 inches to 9 feet 6 inches beam, 

 and 28 inches to 36 inches deep; the model is thus 

 somewhat wide in proportion to her length. 



Given by J. W. Milner. 



LAKE ERIE POUND-NET SHARPIE, about 1893 

 Rigged Model, usnm 76265 



This model of a pound-net sharpie represents the 

 t\pe built at Green Bay, Ohio, in the 1880's for the 

 local pound-net fisheries. An attempt was made, 

 under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Fisheries, to 

 introduce this model of sharpie into the North Caro- 

 lina .Sounds, but this was not very successful. Few 

 boats of this model and rig were built there, though 

 the model was cataloged as being from the Clarolina 

 .Sounds. 



The model shows a typical Lake Erie pound-net 

 sharpie, having a flat, rockered bottom, straight rak- 

 ing stem, flat raking transom, flaring straight sides, 

 strong sheer, wide stern, sharp entrance, and a short 

 and flat run with good lift at the stern. The model is 

 open, with thwarts and stern sheets, two masts, and 

 pound-net boat rig. 



Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot; the model scales 

 28 feet at gunwale. 9 feet 6 inches beam, 3 feet depth, 

 foremast above thwart 27 feet 3 inches, and mainmast 

 above thwart 25 feet 6 inches. The foresail is loose 

 footed, the mainsail boomed. As a class the pound- 

 net sharpies were very loftily rigged; the use of a boom 

 on the foresail seems to have been a matter of indi- 

 vidual owner preference. 



Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



tAaritime Materials in the Watercraft Collection 

 of the United States National Museum 



Historic American Merch.^nt Marine Survey 



A collection of ship and boat plans, photographs, 

 and notes obtained by U. S. Works Progress Admin- 

 istration Project 6, in 1937. Plans are of varying 

 quality, precision, completeness, and scale. A special 

 catalog is obtainable from the Curator of Transporta- 

 tion. 



Griffiths' Collection 



Ship plans, some items of correspondence, half- 

 models, patent drawings, and other material pertain- 

 ing to work of the American ship-designer, John \V. 

 Griffiths, of New York. He designed a number of 

 clipper ships, steamers, and other craft in the period 



1842-70, and was senior editor of The Monthly Xautical 

 Magazine and Qjiarterly Review, later as United States 

 .Nautical Magazine and Naval Journal, Ne\%' York City 

 1854-57. No catalog of this material is at present 

 availal)le. 



Ship Plan Files 



Plans of a large number of sailing ships, American 

 and foreign; small American sailing and power craft; 

 steamships; and of some models in the \Vatercraft 

 Collection. Includes plans from the collections of 

 the author and of others. Plans are of varying 

 completeness; many are suitable for model-building 

 and for illustration. 



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