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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 340

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igure 2 shows whereto calk. Cut strips of not too stiff wrapping-paperabout one and a half inches wide and paste themacross the two bottom ends and down the side the cracks where the wood laps at the ends, andentirely covering the calking. The object is tomake a complete wax coating over the… … FIG. 2. CALKING THE BOTTOM. Choose a slender stick six or seven inches longfor the mast. It will depend upon the size of theboat how high you should have the mast, but itmust not be so high as to make the boat top-heavy. From a sheet of unruled writing-papercut the sail (Fig. 3) and make it high…

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