A practical course in wooden boat and ship building, the fundamental principles and practical methods described in detail, especially written for carpenters and other woodworkers who desire to engage in boat or ship building, and as a textbook for schools (1918)
Van Gaasbeek, Richard Montgomery, 1877- · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 128
MACHINES AND LABOR-SAVING DEVICES 125 about 40 feet, scarfed together with 7-foot scarfs.Each scarf is fastened with eight li/4 bolts set upover clinch rings at both ends. The keel is set upon the keel blocks, wedged and shored in position.The keel shown in Figure 70 probably holds the … Figure 72.—Assembling Platform, Shoving 1 i^-onals. record, having been laid in 10 minutes in anAtlantic Coast shipyard. Assembling Platform.—At the head of each wayis an assembling platform as shown in Figure71. Timbers are fastened to the platform on thediagonal lines, and upon these timbers the…
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