. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. the foresail the larger and loosefooted, the main with boom. Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot; this boat was 19 feet 2 inches at gunwale, 6 feet 6 inches beam, fore- mast 13 feet 6 inches above deck, mainmast 12 feet 9 inches above thwart. The bald clipper bow of the model was very popular in small New England fishing boats, between 1865 and 1885, even when no bow- sprit was employed. Given by Johnson & Young, lS7f). Restored by Merritt Edson, 1958. GLOUCESTER WATERBOAT, 1883 Rigged Model, usnm 56937 Aqua Pura Cat-rigged keel waterbo
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. the foresail the larger and loosefooted, the main with boom. Scale of model is 1 inch to the foot; this boat was 19 feet 2 inches at gunwale, 6 feet 6 inches beam, fore- mast 13 feet 6 inches above deck, mainmast 12 feet 9 inches above thwart. The bald clipper bow of the model was very popular in small New England fishing boats, between 1865 and 1885, even when no bow- sprit was employed. Given by Johnson & Young, lS7f). Restored by Merritt Edson, 1958. GLOUCESTER WATERBOAT, 1883 Rigged Model, usnm 56937 Aqua Pura Cat-rigged keel waterboats of the type illustrated by this model were used to supply the fishing schooners at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Water was carried in wooden tanks below deck amidships and some boats also carried ice in a hold abaft the tanks. Water was transferred by manually operated force-pumps placed on deck. The boats ustially had no cabin or trunk, as they did not leave the harbor and usually had a Gloucester Waterboat Aqua Pura, built in 1883. This rigged model, USNM 56973, shows very well the typical deck arrangement and rig. {Smithsonian photo ^^6y-j-m.) permanent station at a wharf, leaving only upon rcc[ucst to supply a vessel with either water or ice. The boats, which ranged in length hum about 35 to 45 feet, usually carried two men and were handv craft, designed to work among the wharves and in the crowded slips and harbor. Most of the waterboats were built at Essex, Massachusetts; similar boats were also employed at Boston to supply its fishing fleet. The model represents a waterboat having a sharp and moderately long entrance, a rather short but well formed run, straight keel of moderate drag and with a skeg and more than average deadwood outside the rabbet, flush decked and with log rail, moderate draft, good sheer, upright curved stem, and a round fantail stern like that of a tug. The midsection shows a rising straight floor carried well out, a firm, roimd. Please note that th
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