Editing Scow (section)

===Scow schooners===
An American design that reached its zenith of size on the American [[Great Lakes]], and was also used widely in New Zealand, the [[schooner]]-rigged scow was used for coastal and inland transport, from colonial days to the early 1900s.<ref>Jay C. Martin, "Scows, and Barges, or Other Vessels of Box Model" ''International Journal of Maritime History'' 30 (February 2018).</ref> Scow schooners had a broad, shallow hull, and used [[centreboard]]s, [[bilgeboard]]s or [[leeboard]]s rather than a deep [[keel]]. The broad hull gave them stability, and the retractable [[Hydrofoil|foil]]s allowed them to move even heavy loads of cargo in waters far too shallow for keelboats to enter. The squared-off bow and stern accommodated a large cargo. The smallest sailing scows were [[sloop]]-rigged (making them technically a ''scow sloop''), but were otherwise similar in design. The scow sloop eventually evolved into the ''inland lake scow'', a type of fast racing boat.

Sailing scows were popular in the American South for economic reasons, because the pine planks found there were difficult to bend, and because inlets along the Gulf Coast and Florida were often shallow.