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 54
or deck, or ten times thesize of your draft. This is the way a yacht-builder con-structs the vessel from the designers plans. The Fin-keel The easiest model to make and the fastest is the fin-keel.Take your block of wood and shape it into a form resembling acigar; cut this in two lengthwise; be… … Fig. I THE FIN-KEEL MODEL. SIDE AND END SECTIONS fore and aft; saw a slight slit in the bottom and center ofyour boat lengthwise, and insert a brass plate (same shape asshown in design); it should be composed of one-sixteenthof an inch brass. Mold your lead bulb in white plaster-of-Paris. This is…
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