Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . e it yourself, remember that it must be verylight and hollowed out as thin as possible. Let it be twenty-four inches long, four inches wide at midships, and three anda half inches deep. The stern-post should be about an inchand a half within the stern, raking, and two and a half incheshigh, as marked in Fig. i. Fasten a strip of lead one-eighthof an inch thick along the bottom of the keel. The bowsshould be sharp, and the boat should have a clean run it is finished paint it, and when dry put it in
Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . e it yourself, remember that it must be verylight and hollowed out as thin as possible. Let it be twenty-four inches long, four inches wide at midships, and three anda half inches deep. The stern-post should be about an inchand a half within the stern, raking, and two and a half incheshigh, as marked in Fig. i. Fasten a strip of lead one-eighthof an inch thick along the bottom of the keel. The bowsshould be sharp, and the boat should have a clean run it is finished paint it, and when dry put it into water,and mark on the stern-post the height that the water you must bore a hole in the stern-post right throughinto the boat in the direction of the top of the stem. This 48 A BOAT WITH A SCREW PROPELLER must be done with a red-hot wire; the hole is to be three-eighths of an inch across. Making the Machinery The next thing to do is to get a brass tube from the gas-fitters, or get a tinman to make you one of tin, three-eighths of an inch inside measurement. This tube must. finch Fig. I
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