. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. in having a fore-gripe, or bow skeg, as well as a skeg aft. As a result they were very steady on the helm. When a was taking up his gear he often had to attend this rather than the helm, so the fore- gripe proved useful in these boats. The model shows an open skifT-like sharpie having a fiat bottom and straight, flaring sides, the flare very great at stern, strong camber fore-and-aft with moderate round forward and more aft, strong sheer, large centerboard, a nearly vertical straight stem, a raking transom of marked width, the rud
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. in having a fore-gripe, or bow skeg, as well as a skeg aft. As a result they were very steady on the helm. When a was taking up his gear he often had to attend this rather than the helm, so the fore- gripe proved useful in these boats. The model shows an open skifT-like sharpie having a fiat bottom and straight, flaring sides, the flare very great at stern, strong camber fore-and-aft with moderate round forward and more aft, strong sheer, large centerboard, a nearly vertical straight stem, a raking transom of marked width, the rudder hung outboard, a bow (or breast) thwart, a wide mast thwart, one thwart aft of the centerboard case, and stern sheets. There is a skeg at stern, and a smaller skeg, or fore-gripe, at stem; the bow is long and sharp with a short but rising and flat run. These boats were characterized by the marked twist in their side planks; the flare of the sides gradually increasing as the stern was approached. The rig consists of a loose-footed sprit-mainsail and jib, the latter tacked to the stemhead. The model is fitted to row; a pair of oars and a steering sweep are stowed. Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot, producing a boat 20 feet 9 inches on the gunwale, 5 feet 7 inches beam, 22}^ inches depth, mast 14 feet 8 inches above gunwales, sprit 18 feet 6 inches, and oars 12 feet 2 inches. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. CEDAR KEYS SEINE SKIFF, about 1890 Rigged Model, usnm 76270 This model is of a wide, shoal, sharpie skiff of the "flat iron" model that was once employed in the alongshore seine fishery at Cedar Keys, Florida. These boats were commonly fitted to row only, two oars to a side, using double thole pins at each oar. As illustrated by the model, the skiff had its greatest beam well aft, abaft the second thwart from the stem, and carried the seine at the stern, on a net deck a few inches below the gunwale. The stem was straight and nearly upright; the sides flared
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