. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. -------"--= ^^ - -----â "-- "^ .-^^ - ^ --â cr_. ^-^.*A* ⢠; l-:^m&^ QuoDDY Boat Yankee Hero built at Lubcc, Maine, in 1889, jib-and-mainsail rig. Lines taken uli' builders lialf-model USNM 76293. Deck arrangement and spar dimensions are from rigged model USNM 76266. use as a sardine carrier, to attend a weir and carry the catch to a cannery. The model is for an a\crage size boat of the type. The Tankee Hero is represented by a rigged model (usnm 76266) in the VVatercraft Collection. Boats of this type were very popular i
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. -------"--= ^^ - -----â "-- "^ .-^^ - ^ --â cr_. ^-^.*A* ⢠; l-:^m&^ QuoDDY Boat Yankee Hero built at Lubcc, Maine, in 1889, jib-and-mainsail rig. Lines taken uli' builders lialf-model USNM 76293. Deck arrangement and spar dimensions are from rigged model USNM 76266. use as a sardine carrier, to attend a weir and carry the catch to a cannery. The model is for an a\crage size boat of the type. The Tankee Hero is represented by a rigged model (usnm 76266) in the VVatercraft Collection. Boats of this type were very popular in the shore fisheries of eastern Maine, from the Penobscot to the Canadian border and beyond, on the western shore of the Bay of Fundy, in New Brunswick. Some were smacks having live wells, and on occasion were em- ployed in the loljster fisheries. The half-model represents a caravel-planked, keel, double-ended, decked sloop having strong sheer, straight keel with heavy drag, straight and raking post, slightly curved and raking stem. The midsec- tion formed with sharply rising straight floor, hard ijilge, and rather upright topside. The bow sections flare; the after sections are somewhat Y-shaped near post. Greatest beam is at midlength; the entrance is sharp, long, and somewhat convex; the run is long, easy, and quite hollow. Scale of the model is y^ inch to the foot, producing a vessel 33 feet 6J2 inches overall, 32 feet 3 inches on deck, 11 feet 1 inch moulded beam, 5 feet 3)4 inches moulded depth, and drawing about 5 feet 6 inches aft and 3 feet 3 inches forward. Given by J. Brown, boatbuilder, Lubec, Maine, 1894. QUODDY BOAT, 1889 Rigged Model, usnm 76266 Yankee Hero This sloop-rigged model is of the Quoddy boat Tankee Hero, represented by the builder's half-model USNM 76293, shows the rig and deck arrangement common in this type of sardine carrier once employed in the vicinity of Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine. Boats of this type and size usually referred to locally as pink
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