Bottom-board boats like reach boats, salmon wherries, Sea Bright skiffs, Seaford skiffs, and Adirondack guide­ boats have a keel that is a wide plank. If you widened the plank you'd get a Piscataqua wherry, and if you added some planks alongside it you would get a dory. Their sterns are "built down” rather than having deadwood and a rabbet like the Whitehall types.  This Moosabec Reach boat came from the area of Castine, Maine, sometime before 1920, and probably dates before 1900.  Her owner, Andy Chase, brought her down to Mystic Seaport in March 1974, when he was in high school, and John Gardner helped him measure, draw, and repair the boat. Andy later designed a cat-ketch sailing rig. She has more freeboard than similarly sized Whitehalls, and her underwater shape is very different.  John Gardner figured that a builder would need more experience to reproduce her, but he noted hopefully, "surely we have not become so effete that there are not craftsmen among us today equal to the task." His full write up is in Chapter 3 of his Wooden Boats to Build and Use.  From 87 Boat Designs by Ben Fuller. 

Catalog number WSP.MISC.16