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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
The cutter rig is the one best adapted to a boat of this kind when speed is a special 
requisite. Besides, a running bowsprit (which can be pulled in when the sea is rough) 
and a houcing top-mast add materially to the power and efficiency of a boat in heavy 
weather. The sail plan, Plate 18, shows a large area of canvas, most noticeable, per- 
haps, in the club gaff-topsail. But the prevalence of ] ight winds on the Pacific coast 
during a portion of the year seems to call for considerable light canvas, and, on a 
boat like this, it can be easily managed and will do most effective work. 
The sjiecial feature of this boat is, however, the well. It is believed that the 
so-called “box well” (Plate 17, figs. 1 and 2), which is peculiar to the Key West 
“smackees,” is the style best adapted to market fishing, and for this reason such an 
one has been shown on the plans. If greater capacity for living fish is required it can 
be obtained by making the well of the ordinary type with a deck, and building it with 
“primings-out.” It is [jrobable, though, that a box well will be found quite sufficient 
to accommodate the catch from day to day, and any surplus which can not be mar- 
keted can be transferred to live-cars, as previously mentioned. 
The plans have been made for a boat of such size as is believed to be most suitable 
for the market fishery of the west coast. It is, however, entirely feasible to construct 
one smaller or larger from the plans, as will be understood by practical builders.* * 
The following are the principal dimensions : 
Feet. Inches. 
Length over all 
Length, load water line 
Beam, extreme 
Beam, load waterline 
Depth, deck to keel, amidships 
Draught, extreme 
Least freeboard 
Length of well, extreme 
Length of well at deck 
Width of well, extreme 
Width of well at deck 
Mast, from fore side of stem at deck 
Mast, deck to hounds - 
Masthead 
Topmast, fid to truck 
Boom - 
Gaff 
Bowsprit, outside stem 
Topsail pole 
Topsail club 
34 3 : 
28 2 ' 
10 9 
9 7i 
6 0 ‘ 
5 i 
1 9 
8 0 ^ 
3 0 
5 0 ; 
2 0 
10 9i 
22 9 
4 6 
22 0 : 
30 6 : 
20 0 
14 6 
23 0 
16 6 ' 
F.— NOTES ON BRITISH FISHING STEAMERS. ^ 
1. STEAM FISH-CARRIERS. 
No vessels employed in the British fisheries play a, more important part than those 
which are termed “carriers,” the chief business of which is the transportation of 
fresh fish from the fleets of beam-trawlers in the North Sea to the principal markets. 
' The lines have been drawn to show the form and dimensions of the boat to outside of planking 
instead of to outside of frames, as is commonly the case. 
* These notes are extracted from a manuscript report, prepared by the writer, on the fishing ves- 
sels of foreign countries. 
