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 112
feet long, eighteen inches wide at themiddle, and two feet deep uniformly from bow to stern ex-cept for a short distance at the bow where the keel rounds up. They are in the form of a V, and at the ends the angle be-comes more acute, so that at the stem and stern the lines arevertical. Four feet… … 96 CATAMARANS In Fig. 8 the curved stem-piece and one side of plankingis shown, and it indicates also where the curved stem-pieceis joined to the keel, which extends in a straight line to thestern of the boats. The keel is of hard-wood one inch and a quarter thick andsix inches wide. The…
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