Bulletin - United States National Museum (1960) (19886728933)

Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum

Identifier: bulletinunitedst2191960unit (find matches)

Year: 1877 (1870s)

Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior

Subjects: Science

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc. ); for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

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Egg Harbor Melon-Seed Gun- ning Skiff from lower Barnegat Bay, New Jersey. Rigged model USNM 25658 showing a typical boat of this type. (Sinithsonian lihoto 4^6gy~a.) was controlled Idv a yoke and steering lines, as in the sneakljox. The model shows a sqiiare-sterned caravel-planked centerboard boat having a moderate sheer, rockered keel \vith skeg. ciir\ed stem, raking transom with rudder hung outljoard, sharp entrance, and an easy, well formed run. The midsection shows a slightly rising straight floor, slack rounded bilge, and flaring topside. The centerboard is of the curved dagger type, not pis'oted. The boat is decked except for small cockpit nearly amidships which has covers and a spray cloth. The rig is a single boomed spritsail, the mast well forward as in a catboat. The model is of a skifl' 13 feet AK inches extreme length at gunwale, 4 feet 3 inches beam, and about 13,!(; inches depth from rabbet to centerline of deck amidships at fore end of cockpit. Scale of model is 2 inches to the foot. Given by P. Brasher. WOODEN CANOE, 1880 Full-Sized Boat, usnm 160315 Sa/rej' Gcimp This very small canoe was built by J. H. Rushton of Canton, New York, about 1880 for George W. Sears, who, under the pen-name "Nessmuk,"' wrote for American sporting magazines about woodland tra\el, hunting, and fishing. The canoe was designed to be as light and small as was practical for a single woodsman to carry and use in long expeditions in the forest. Its notable builder specialized in canoes and light rowing craft. The Sairey Gamp (named for the midwife and nurse in Charles Dickens' Alarlin Chiizdewit) was the third and last of a series of such canoes built for the owner. The canoe, clench-planked of thin white cedar, is a small double-ender of moderate sheer, having a straight keel and moderately raking stem and stern posts. The stem has a slight curve in profile and is 100

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