. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Measured Perspective Drawing oi- a Chebacco Boat, 1795-1805, showing form and arrangement of hull Drawn bv the late Georsre C. Wales. crab by passing it through a small hole, made in the crab for the purpose, and splicing it in place; the free end was made up in a large eye-splice. This cable was usually about 4 to 5 fathoms long and the eye- splice was buoyed. In mooring, when the Chebacco boat picked up the buoy, the large eye-splice was dropped over the high stem-head of the boat, thus securing her. In some boats a removable fid was passe
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Measured Perspective Drawing oi- a Chebacco Boat, 1795-1805, showing form and arrangement of hull Drawn bv the late Georsre C. Wales. crab by passing it through a small hole, made in the crab for the purpose, and splicing it in place; the free end was made up in a large eye-splice. This cable was usually about 4 to 5 fathoms long and the eye- splice was buoyed. In mooring, when the Chebacco boat picked up the buoy, the large eye-splice was dropped over the high stem-head of the boat, thus securing her. In some boats a removable fid was passed through the steinhead athwartships to prevent the eye-splice from coming adrift, but in most boats the stemhead was so high this was not necessary. Though the center of Chebacco boat construction was at Cape Ann, copies of the type were built else- where, on the "South Shore" of Massachusetts at Hingham, Scituate, and Kingston as well as to the eastward in Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. The old sailing fishing boats of the northern end of the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, were certainly de- scendants and a form of Chebacco is said to have existed there late into the last quarter of the 19th cen- tury. The Cheljacco lost its popularity in Massachu- setts at the end of the War of 1812 as the increase in size of hull began to make the rig heavy to work; as a result, in the inshore fisheries the schooner-rigged pink\ surplanted the pink-sterned Chebacco and the square-stern schooner the dog body. It is not known when this type of schooner, later known as the "pinky," originated. But the pink- sterned hull with schooner rig appears to have been used in the New England fishing fleet before the Rev- olution. It is probable, however, that it existed throughout the whole period of development of the square-stern schooner. At the end of the War of 1812 the pinky had a period of popularity and a great many were built. The pinkies were at their height of popularity
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