. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. I'cc't lonti". 3 feet 6 inches beam, and aliout 2 feet depth of side. The model is fitted with two sculls, single tholes with a becket, and one pole. Given by U. S. Bureau of WELL-SMACK SLOOP, 1894 Rigged Model, usnm 76268 Sparrowhawk This model was made from a design prepared in 1893-94 by Captain J. \V. Collins for an improved well smack for use in the shore fisheries of the Pacific Coast. The purpose was to produce a swift and safe sloop of moderate size to bring live fish to market without the need of ice, which at the t
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. I'cc't lonti". 3 feet 6 inches beam, and aliout 2 feet depth of side. The model is fitted with two sculls, single tholes with a becket, and one pole. Given by U. S. Bureau of WELL-SMACK SLOOP, 1894 Rigged Model, usnm 76268 Sparrowhawk This model was made from a design prepared in 1893-94 by Captain J. \V. Collins for an improved well smack for use in the shore fisheries of the Pacific Coast. The purpose was to produce a swift and safe sloop of moderate size to bring live fish to market without the need of ice, which at the time was scarce and expensive in the fishing areas where the sloop was intended to be used. Such an improved smack, it was believed, would also prove useful in southern waters. In 1895 the sloop Sparrowhawk was built from this design, but without the well, by Lawrence Jensen at Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ballasted with iron inside and built for fishing, her speed attracted such attention that she was purchased and fitted as a yacht with ballast keel and additional sail. The attempt to introduce the well into small craft was not very suc- cessful in spite of the practical advantages, and rela- tively few American fishing boats, except in New- England and on the Florida coast, have employed this fitting since 1885. The model represents a keel sloop with strong and graceful sheer, long, sharp entrance, stem straight above the waterline and much curved below, the keel and rabbet much rockered and the outside deadwood quite deep, forefoot very shallow, raking post, high and light counter ending in a small V-shaped transom, and the run short but well formed. The greatest beam is abaft midlength. The midsection shows a steeply rising floor with slight hollow at the garboards, a very slack and easy bilge, and a flaring topside. The well, of the usual truncated pyramid form, was amidships and there was a raised cuddy deck forward in the design (in the model the deck is flush), a com- pan
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