Former Names | |
Rig type | Schooner |
Rig description | scow schooner |
LOD | 59' 4" |
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LWL | |
Beam | 22' 7" |
Draft: maximum | 5' 4" |
Draft: minimum | |
Sail area | |
Gross tons | 59 |
Designer | |
Design | |
Builder | Fred Seimer |
Launched | 1891 |
Planking | Wood |
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Power plant | |
Charter | No |
Primary home port city | San Francisco |
Primary home port state | CA |
Primary home port country | United States |
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Affiliation | |
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Comments | Alma is a wooden-hulled scow schooner built in 1891 to carry bulk cargo.
The flat-bottomed hull was designed to navigate the shallow waters of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and to rest on the bottom at low tide. |