. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. a strong halyard, the heel secured by a tack tackle setting up on the face of the stem and with fall leading inboard. Abaft the mast is a small square hatch and well abaft amidships is a companion hatch; here the deck is lowered to form a shallow cockpit. The boat steered with a tiller, now missing in the model. The loose-footed sail is brailcd to reef. Sweep locks, fitted amidships to permit rowing in a calm, are omitted in the model. The raised portion of the deck had a low log rail, or chock rail, carried to the transom, where there was a
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. a strong halyard, the heel secured by a tack tackle setting up on the face of the stem and with fall leading inboard. Abaft the mast is a small square hatch and well abaft amidships is a companion hatch; here the deck is lowered to form a shallow cockpit. The boat steered with a tiller, now missing in the model. The loose-footed sail is brailcd to reef. Sweep locks, fitted amidships to permit rowing in a calm, are omitted in the model. The raised portion of the deck had a low log rail, or chock rail, carried to the transom, where there was an iron mainsheet horse. The scale of the model is uncertain, probably % inch to the foot, and the boat was therefore about 26 feet long, 10 feet 9 inches beam, and about 4 feet. Given by Captain Edward H. Adams, Adams' Point, New Hampshire. PISCATAQUA RIVER GUNDALOW, 1886 Rigged Model, usnm 31H48 Fanny M. This model represents the Piscataqua River gunda- low Fanny M. built at Adams Point, New Hampshire, in 1886 by Edward H. Adams for his own accovmt. The buildcr-owncr desired an improved vessel and made this model to carry out sailing tests. When tests showed the model would sail fast, the model's lines were taken off and used to build the full-sized gundalow. The history of the development of the gundalow is not fully known. It is believed that this type devel- oped from ordinary river scows in colonial times and that the rig was a gradual evolution from a Icg-of- mutton to allow the mast and sail to be quickly and easily lowered to pass under low bridges. This form of gundalow (the name was applied to many forms of flat-bottomed craft in America in the 18th and early 19th centuries) was a river freighter having a charac- teristic sail plan and a single leeboard. The early gundalows were open boats and some were no more than ordinary square-ended scows having the single leeboard and peculiar rig shown in this model. Later many gundalows had large single hatches and were partly
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