. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. sailers and very weatherly and handy. They were also fair carriers. The North Star, modeled by Richard Simpson, a notable builder of coasters and fishing schooners at Sullivan, was reported to have been a fast sailer and a fine sea boat. The half-model represents a schooner having very great sheer, a straight keel with heavy drag, rather upright and curved stem rabbet, well rounded fore- foot, slight rake to post, round tuck, upper-and- lower-transom square stern, short entrance with somewhat V-shaped watcrlines, fair length of body, and a s
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. sailers and very weatherly and handy. They were also fair carriers. The North Star, modeled by Richard Simpson, a notable builder of coasters and fishing schooners at Sullivan, was reported to have been a fast sailer and a fine sea boat. The half-model represents a schooner having very great sheer, a straight keel with heavy drag, rather upright and curved stem rabbet, well rounded fore- foot, slight rake to post, round tuck, upper-and- lower-transom square stern, short entrance with somewhat V-shaped watcrlines, fair length of body, and a somewhat short but well formed run. The midsection is formed with rather marked rise in the straight floor, firm round bilge, and a slight tumble- home in the topside. Vessels of this type had a short, heavy cutwater and much steeve in the bowsprit, a short, high and bulwarked quarterdeck; and, for their size high bulwarks on the maindeck. The old form of bow, having no flare, is very marked in the North Star. By 1856 this class of coaster had become better finished than the earlier fishing schooners; a head and billet with, sometimes, carved trails were often used, and the deck arrangement and deck fittings approached those of contemporary fishing and coasting schooners, of the then "modern" design, built in Maine and Massachusetts. The model is for a schooner measuring 60 feet moulded length at rail, 58 feet 9 inches length between perpendiculars, 17 feet 6 inches moulded beam, 6 feet 3 inches moulded depth, and 8 feet 3 inches draft at post, loaded. Scale of the model is % inch to the foot. Given by D. A. Simpson, Sullivan, Maine. TWO-MASTED COASTING SCHOONER, 1838 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76052 K. B. Sumner The 2-masted keel coasting schooner R. B. Sumner was built on this model at Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, for owners in that port, in 1858. This vessel is said to have been intended for the general coastal freighting trade but she is unusually sharp for this e
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