. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. â ^ The Ocean Freighting Ship ]\'illiam Lawreme. 1874, from a French print in the VVatercraft Collection (USN'M 159930). This type was popular with American and Canadian shipowners during the period 1865-85. (Smil/t- sonian photo 44638-1!.) but rarely a gaff-topsail; on the topmast was set a large staysail which became better known to modern yachtsmen as the fisherman staysail. The rig was designed so that in strong winds and fresh breezes the vessels would work on all points of sailing under foresail alone, the jib and mainsail being set on
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. â ^ The Ocean Freighting Ship ]\'illiam Lawreme. 1874, from a French print in the VVatercraft Collection (USN'M 159930). This type was popular with American and Canadian shipowners during the period 1865-85. (Smil/t- sonian photo 44638-1!.) but rarely a gaff-topsail; on the topmast was set a large staysail which became better known to modern yachtsmen as the fisherman staysail. The rig was designed so that in strong winds and fresh breezes the vessels would work on all points of sailing under foresail alone, the jib and mainsail being set only when the vessel was racing to put a pilot aboard a ship, or when the weather was light, at which time the topmast staysail would also be set. These pilot schooners attracted international atten- tion and were widely copied abroad. When yachting became an organized sport in America, a great many schooner yachts had pilot-boat hulls and rigs; indeed, two or three were former pilot boats or were used as pilot boats after a few years as yachts. By 1860 fore booms were being added and the size of the foresail reduced, so that the rig became the modern one now used in some yachts. By then the pilot boat was a rather stereotyped model having a short, straight keel with much drag, and a nearly upright post, above which was either a very short counter or a strongly raking V-shaped transom; the stem was nearly upright above the load line and unadorned with any head or carvings, the forefoot was usually much rounded and the curve of the forefoot was carried farther and farther aft along the keel in each new boat. The sheer was usually strong, the freeboard amidships quite low. The midsection was formed with a steeply rising floor, sometimes with hollow at the garboard, a high and often hard turn of the bilge, and a slight tumble-home in the topside. The entrance was usually long, very sharp and, sometimes, slightly hollow at the load line just abaft the stem. The run was less long but
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