. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CENTERBOARD FISHING SCHOONER, about 1846 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76098 C. Chase The shoal-draft ccnterboard fishing schooner C. Chase \vas buill from this half-model at Baltimore. Maryland, about 1846 by William Skinner & Sons for Wellfleet, Massachusetts, owners but does not appear to have been registered in the Barnstable district. It represents a type much favored in the Chesapeake oyster fishery. In the decade 1845-55 New England fishermen who were seeking faster vessels obtained a considerable number of Chesapeake Bay built schoo
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. CENTERBOARD FISHING SCHOONER, about 1846 Builder's Half-Model, usnm 76098 C. Chase The shoal-draft ccnterboard fishing schooner C. Chase \vas buill from this half-model at Baltimore. Maryland, about 1846 by William Skinner & Sons for Wellfleet, Massachusetts, owners but does not appear to have been registered in the Barnstable district. It represents a type much favored in the Chesapeake oyster fishery. In the decade 1845-55 New England fishermen who were seeking faster vessels obtained a considerable number of Chesapeake Bay built schooners, particularly for the oyster business at Wellfleet. These were employed in the summer in the mackerel fishery and in the winter to transport oysters from the Chesapeake to Cape Cod. Some were shoal-draft keel vessels of the pungy type, others were centerboarders like the C. Chase, but all had sharp lines and were designed for speed. The Chesa- peake schooners proved fast in light and moderate weather and were liked in the rnackerel fishery, but in blowing weather they were wet and uncomfortable. Eventually they were replaced by New England built schooners, but the centerboard type shown in the C. Chase was employed in the Cape Cod and Long Island Sound oyster fisheries as long as schooners were used there. The model shows a schooner having very slight dead rise and a rather marked liilge, shallow-bodied and low-sided. The entrance is rather sharp and short; the run is very long and fine; the raking stem is fitted with a short heavy head; the transom is in two parts, both curved athwartships, the upper one curved the most; and the stern is wide. The scale of the half-model is )i inch to the foot producing a vessel Chesapeake Bay Centerboard Fishing Schooner C. Chase, built at Baltimore, Maryland, about 1846, for Cape Cod owners. Lines taken oflF builders' half- model USNM 76098. 60 feet 7 inches i)etween perpendiculars. 19 feet 2 inches moulded i^eam, about 5 feet depth of
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