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 99
r a great deal of fun can be had with one in compara-tively smooth waterways. To make the hull get two ten-inch planks sixteen feet longand spring them five feet from either end so that they cometogether at both ends and are separated fifteen inches alongthe middle for five or six feet as shown in… … fi^^l Ik II nz3 /^<?<23 V A PROA BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS plank the deck and bottom, using plenty of white-lead andlamp-wicking between the joints. The cross-braces or outriggers are of two-by-four-inchclear spruce six feet long, and their outer ends are bolted toa solid spruce timber twelve…
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