Catboat MASCOT, circa 1912-1913

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Snapshot by Henry M. Plummer, Sr, 1912-1913; catboat MASCOT; "An old fashioned Cape Cod Catboat 30 years old (in 1912). Length overall 24'6", waterline 23', beam 10', draft 3' 6". . . as safe and able a little ship as a man could want to go to sea in."; from "The Boy, Me and the Cat", by Henry M. Plummer, Sr., cruise in 24 ft. catboat MASCOT from New Bedford, MA, to Miami, FL, October 1912 to June 1913. Caption from display panel 1964.36.1. RESTRICTED, FOR RESEARCH ONLY.