. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATEriCRAFT COLLECTIOX, 231 A tub-shaped, clinker built, keelless craft; excessively ^\'ide and blunt, with bluff and almost square ends, tumbling in at top, curved and sloping below to join bottom; stem straight and slightly raking above water, strongly curved below; straight raking sternpost; large rudder hung outside; flat floor, with narrow flat section in middle projecting downward like a keel: short turn to bilge; slightly. -DUTCH " ; flaring side; heavy chock on bends for leeboarcl to rest agains
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CATALOGUE OF THE WATEriCRAFT COLLECTIOX, 231 A tub-shaped, clinker built, keelless craft; excessively ^\'ide and blunt, with bluff and almost square ends, tumbling in at top, curved and sloping below to join bottom; stem straight and slightly raking above water, strongly curved below; straight raking sternpost; large rudder hung outside; flat floor, with narrow flat section in middle projecting downward like a keel: short turn to bilge; slightly. -DUTCH " ; flaring side; heavy chock on bends for leeboarcl to rest against; fair sheer; fitted with beam trawl, wooden capstan for heaving in the nets; oars; two-flued and three-pronged iron anchors; fish bins, etc. It has a peculiar yawl rig seen nowhere else in the world, with hemp sails and mast jointed so that it can be lowered into the large stern crutch when the boat is engaged in the drift-net herring fishery. Dimensions of vessel.—Length, knightheads to taffrail, 3"2 feet; beam, 20 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 7 feet 9 inches: bowsprit, out- board, 11 feet 3 inches; jibboom. total length. 2^1: feet: mast, deck. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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