Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . ve to draw thestring out to its full length. The Hull The hull is made from a piece of soft wood about a foot longand an inch thick, shaped as shown in the diagrams. (Fig. 2).The boat is flat-bottomed, and is not hollow, the wood beingsufficiently buoyant. The paddle-wheels are made ofshingle or cigar-box wood about three and a half incheslong and one inch wide, with an incision cut in the centerthe same width as the thickness of the board; four of thesewill be necessary to make the two wheels. They are jo
Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . ve to draw thestring out to its full length. The Hull The hull is made from a piece of soft wood about a foot longand an inch thick, shaped as shown in the diagrams. (Fig. 2).The boat is flat-bottomed, and is not hollow, the wood beingsufficiently buoyant. The paddle-wheels are made ofshingle or cigar-box wood about three and a half incheslong and one inch wide, with an incision cut in the centerthe same width as the thickness of the board; four of thesewill be necessary to make the two wheels. They are joinedtogether by the axle, which should be about the thicknessof a lead-pencil and half an inch longer than the width ofthe boat, to prevent the wheels catching on the sides ofthe boat as they revolve. To fasten the paddle-wheels on the axle, drive a smallfinishing nail through one section of the paddle at theincision into the end of the axle, as shown in Fig. 2; thenfit the sections together, and the paddle-wheels are com-plete. The axle is kept in place by pieces of wire, or pins 43. HOW TO MAKE A TOY STEAMBOAT with their heads filed off, bent like a horseshoe, and placedover the axle and driven into the boat. The cabin is madeof white cardboard, measuring, when extended out beforebeing bent, about twenty inches; the sides are seven incheslong and one and a half inches high. Upon this windowsare painted in black. If you have no black paint, ink willdo nearly as well. White spaces must be left to representthe sash. In the back of the cabin a small hole is punchedthrough the cardboard for the winding-up cord to passthrough. The dotted lines in the cut show where to bendthe cardboard to form the four sides of the cabin. Thepilot-house is bent in only one place to form the back, thefront curving round in a half circle. (Fig. 3.) The Cabin After having fastened the sides of the cabin to the hull,place the boat upside down on a sheet of cardboard, andwith a pencil go around the cabi
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