. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. straight, and upright stem; sharp entrance and short run; straight sides with moderate flare; a wide stern with a flat and raking transom; and the bottom much cambered fore-and-aft and fitted with bow and stern skegs, the former large. On the stern is mounted a platform for the nets. Fitted with two thwarts and tholes. Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot, for a boat 20 feet 6 inches at gunwale, 7 feet 9 inches beam, and 19^2 inches deep amidships. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. FLORIDA SHARPIE SCHOONER, 1892 Builder's Half-Model, u
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. straight, and upright stem; sharp entrance and short run; straight sides with moderate flare; a wide stern with a flat and raking transom; and the bottom much cambered fore-and-aft and fitted with bow and stern skegs, the former large. On the stern is mounted a platform for the nets. Fitted with two thwarts and tholes. Scale of the model is 1 inch to the foot, for a boat 20 feet 6 inches at gunwale, 7 feet 9 inches beam, and 19^2 inches deep amidships. Given by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. FLORIDA SHARPIE SCHOONER, 1892 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76292 A large schooner-rigged sharpie was built from this half-model at Tampa, Florida, in 1891-92. This vessel was to be employed in the Gulf fisheries of that port, serving as a "run boat" to carry the catch from the "fishing ranches" to the Tampa market. Similar schooners were employed on the Florida east coast, in the Spanish mackerel fishery. The type was swift and could carry heavy loads on a light draft. The bottom was planked athwartships, and many of these sharpie schooners had clipper bows and round sterns or had flat, raking transoins. They were us- ually lofty in rig; sorne had gaff-sails and others had leg-of-mutton sails. Sharpies having no headsail and onlv two leg-of-mutton sails, with hulls up to 45 feet length, were also employed at Tampa in the fisheries; these usually had round sterns and straight, upright stems. The half-model is of a schooner-rigged sharpie, having marked sheer and a long, sharp forebody with the greatest beam well aft of amidships. The run is short but easy and somewhat full near the stern. The bottom is cambered heavily fore-and-aft, the camber being greatest toward the stern, which is round and slightly flaring. The stem rabbet is straight and slightly raking. The midsection has flat floor carried straight across, an angular bilge, and a straight and .slightly flaring topside. Scale of the model is ]â , inch to
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