Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing (1912)
Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed · New York, London, Harper & Brothers · leaf 101
the safest kind of a sailing-craft next to a cata-maran is a swallow with a broad beam and flat at both bow 84 BOATS WHICH BOYS CAN BUILD and stern. There are various forms of the half-rater, butthe one shown in Fig. 24 is easy to construct and requiresless careful fitting and joining than the… … Obtain two clear cedar planks sixteen feet long and fromfourteen to sixteen inches wide. Four feet from either endbegin to round the lower edges of these side boards. Cuttwo spreaders five feet and six inches long and make them 85 BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS fast four feet from the ends of the sides as…
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