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Purchased recently on eBay, this volume is filled with detail on the clipper ship era. Grey Hounds of the Sea, The Story of the American Clipper Ship by Carl C. Cutler also contains a significant amount of contemporary data pertaining to ship sailing records. All that data aside, the book is a good read with the author moving the narrative along nicely. It is well researched, and equally well written.

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These arrived today, Thomas H. Petersen Master Shipbuilder from the Kelley House Museum in Mendocino and The Doghole Schooners. I am not a huge maritime history buff but 19th century west coast U.S. history in general has always held a fascination for me. Neither of these books are ship-building specific and deal more with the history of west coast log-hauling ships, but they're interesting to me nonetheless. I find the "smaller" historical stories far more interesting than sweeping events and "great men".

I am considering scratch-building a model lumber schooner, armed with the knowledge outlined in The Doghole Schooners that such craft were built with such a wild variety that finding a "plan" is probably nigh impossible. Such a model would be an "impression" at best, but there are good photos in these books and available online.
 
The C. A. Thayer on display in San Francisco was recently rebuilt I am sure plans are available. There was a second schooner in Washington State that was surveyed before being demolished plans should be available for her too.

Roger
 
Roger Pellett said:
The C. A. Thayer on display in San Francisco was recently rebuilt I am sure plans are available. There was a second schooner in Washington State that was surveyed before being demolished plans should be available for her too.
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C. A. Thayer is easily twice the size of those little two-mast schooners but the hull form looks pretty similar, I'll look into that.
 
Look into the HAMMS (Historic American Merchant Marine) information for the West Coast. They might have surveyed one of these small schooners back in the ‘30s.

Roger
 
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