. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. usual in the Lawlor-designed schooners, being gen- erally similar to the extreme clipper fishing schooners of the 1870"s. Notable for her swift sailing and ability to carry sail, the Foster was a most successful vessel. The half-model represents a schooner having a long, fine and somewhat hollow entrance, and a very long easy run, the greatest beam being abaft midlength. The rise of floor is moderate and the hollow in the garboards is carried forward as well as aft of this section. The bilges are rather low and hard, the sheer is great,
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. usual in the Lawlor-designed schooners, being gen- erally similar to the extreme clipper fishing schooners of the 1870"s. Notable for her swift sailing and ability to carry sail, the Foster was a most successful vessel. The half-model represents a schooner having a long, fine and somewhat hollow entrance, and a very long easy run, the greatest beam being abaft midlength. The rise of floor is moderate and the hollow in the garboards is carried forward as well as aft of this section. The bilges are rather low and hard, the sheer is great, the keel straight and with much drag, the post upright and the stem rabbet nearly so, the counter is short, finishing with a shallow, elliptical transom, and the head is rather long and beaked. The model shows a characteristic that marked many men in her period; being shallow, wide, very sharp- ended, and heavily canvassed and sparred. Vessels of this design were popular for many years in the New England fishery because they carried a large rig and were stiff and very fast; however they had small ability to right themselves when knocked down, and this weakness resulted in great loss of vessel property and lives from 1865 to 1885. The half-model shows a very long, sharp entrance with the greatest beam well aft; a long, flat, and very fine run ending in a short counter of great width and having low quarters; and a transom wide and curved athwartships, strongly raked, and elliptical in shape. The post is rather upright, the stem rabbet rakes and flares, and the head is long and graceful. The keel is straight and with some drag, the sheer is Lines of Extreme Clipper Type New England Fishing .Schooner, the Nimbus, built at Gloucester, Massa- chusetts, in 1872. Taken off builder's half-model 57052. of the Lawlor designs, maintaining the same dead rise throughout the afterbody from midsection to the counter. Scale of model is % inch to the foot, and the scaled dimens
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