Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . the design (Fig. 2), whichwill serve to show how the clothes are laid on a yachts you wish wire rigging, buy a coil of three-ply picturewire, and when heated red-hot drop in cool water. Thistakes the temper out of it, and makes it easy to divide. Totake the kinks out of it run it back and forth over a softpiece of pine. A very good substitute for thimbles used ona yacht can be obtained by using the old eyelets on a lacedshoe. Flags Every yacht has its own private flag, and also a club ra
Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing . the design (Fig. 2), whichwill serve to show how the clothes are laid on a yachts you wish wire rigging, buy a coil of three-ply picturewire, and when heated red-hot drop in cool water. Thistakes the temper out of it, and makes it easy to divide. Totake the kinks out of it run it back and forth over a softpiece of pine. A very good substitute for thimbles used ona yacht can be obtained by using the old eyelets on a lacedshoe. Flags Every yacht has its own private flag, and also a club racing, the club flag is carried at tip of the topmast,and the private flag is fastened on the mainsail leech, justbelow the gaff. If two or more models are racing, a numbershould be printed in black on a small piece of white cloth,say one and a half by three inches, and pinned on each sideof mainsail, about four inches above the boom and twoinches away from the mast. In case a race is arranged,ascertain in which direction the wind blows, and race di- 40 SUGGESTIONS FOR SLOOP MODELING. Fig. 2 SAILS, SHEER PLAN, CROSS-SECTION, AND DECK VIEWS OF THE KEEL BOAT rectly against it, so as to return with a free wind. Theother way is to make a triangular course. September andthe first part of October is the very best time in the yearto sail miniature yachts. Chapter IV HOW TO MAKE A TOY STEAMBOAT ROBERT FULTON could not have been more proud anddelighted with his first successful steamboat than was thewriter when, as a boy, he succeeded in making a toy craftthat would run itself. (Fig. i). The Motor-power The drawings and diagrams that are here given explainhow to make a small boat, the motor-power being a thin
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