What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 132
75). All nails must be driven inso that their heads are below the surface of the board, or as car-penters call it, countersunk, and the indentations made shouldbe puttied up. Turn the scow over, and upon the inside, at the middle of the Home-Made Boats. 103 bottom, nail a ^-inch long bottom board… … FiG. 75. locks, and should be nailed with wrought-iron nails to the insideof the boat, so that the centres of the rowlocks are about 4 feet10 inches from the end which will be the stern of the boat; thisis the simplest style of rowlock, but a much neater one can bemade by using thole-pins (Fig. TTy…
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