Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 84
THE PRACTICAL BOY. By Joseph H. Adams. SEVENTH PAPER. BOATS. In this article we give a few of the simplerforms of sail and mechanical boats. The warn-ing should be made at the outset that the boy-use the greatest care in constructing a boat, notonly for the natural pride he will take in making … must be bent and formed in the shape of aboat. From a board 7/% of an inch thick cut aspreader, D, 10 inches wide, 48 inches long atone side, and 42 inches at the other. Arrangethis between the boards about midway from bowto stern, so that the bottom of the spreader isflush with the bottom of the…
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