[Gutenberg 44228] • Boat-Building and Boating by Beard, Daniel Carter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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PREFACE CONTENTS Boat-Building and Boating BOAT-BUILDING AND BOATING CHAPTER I HOW TO CROSS A STREAM ON A LOG

How to Build a Logomaran A Logomaran If You Have an Auger and No Nails Fibrous Inner Bark How to Make a Fibre Rope A Dunnage Crib

CHAPTER II HOME-MADE BOATS

The Crusoe Raft The Chump's Raft A Chump's Raft of Logs

CHAPTER III A RAFT THAT WILL SAIL

The Deck The Sail The Keelig

CHAPTER IV CANOES

Slab Canoe The Dugout How to Build a Siwash Canoe How to Make a White Man's Dugout Canoe

CHAPTER V CANOES AND BOATING STUNTS

Old Shells Checks or Cracks The Cause of Upsets The Delights of a Shell Stand Upright In a Shell How to Land Where There Is No Float How to Embark Where There Is No Float Ozias Dodge's Umbrella Canoe How the Canoe Was Built Will Last for Years

CHAPTER VI THE BIRCH-BARK

The Tree Dimensions Bark Difference in the Bark Process of Peeling Toasting The Roll Effects of Heat The Woodwork Ribs Lining Strips Seasoning The Bed Building To Soften the Bark Bow-piece Patching and Pitching Leaks Bottom Protection A Canvas Canoe To Paddle a Canoe To Carry a Canoe

CHAPTER VII HOW TO BUILD A PADDLING DORY

How to Calk a Boat so That It Won't Leak

CHAPTER VIII THE LANDLUBBER'S CHAPTER

Red and Green Lights Parts of a Sail How to Steer a Boat How to Sail a Boat To Sail Close-hauled Coming About In a Thunder-storm What to Do To Reef Without Lowering Sail The Reef or Square Knot To Shake Out a Reef Lights for Canoe Some Do Nots It is Necessary to Learn to Swim Boating-Clothes How to Make a Bathing-Suit Sunburn Clothes for Canoeing Stick to Your Boat Life-Preservers

CHAPTER IX HOW TO RIG AND SAIL SMALL BOATS

How to Make a Lee-Board for a Canoe How to Rig and Sail Small Boats Simplest Rig Possible Leg-of-Mutton Rig The Latteen Rig The Cat-Rig How to Make a Sail Hints to Beginners

CHAPTER X MORE RIGS OF ALL KINDS FOR SMALL BOATS

The Cat The Sloop Racing Sloops Jib and Mainsail Schooner Rig The Balance Lug The Standing Lug Leg-of-Mutton Sail The Buckeye Sliding Gunter Sharpies The Sprit Leg-of-Mutton Sail The Dandy Jigger, or Mizzen Rig The Lateen Rig The Ship

CHAPTER XI KNOTS, BENDS, AND HITCHES

How to Make a Horse-Hair Watch-Guard Miscellaneous Whiplashes Splices, Timber-Hitches, etc.

CHAPTER XII HOW TO BUILD A CHEAP BOAT

The Yankee Pine How to Build a Better Finished Boat Side-Boards Spreader The Stem-piece Don't The Seats The Keel-Board The Skeg To Fasten on the Skeg A Guard Rail To Transform an Ordinary Skiff or Scow Into a Sailing-Boat

CHAPTER XIII A "ROUGH-AND-READY" BOAT

The Stern-piece Use Rope for Binding Planing the Bottom The Deck Ready for the Water How to Make the Sail How to Reef Her

CHAPTER XIV HOW TO BUILD CHEAP AND SUBSTANTIAL HOUSE-BOATS

A Unique Navy Some of These House-Boats Big Square Sails House-Boat as a Fashionable Fad A Flat-Bottomed Scow Building Material Centrepiece The Sides of the House-Boat Make Four End-Pieces Now for the Bottom The Bumpers The Hull May Now Be Painted Twenty-Odd Ribs The Cabin of this House-Boat Deck-Ribs The Boat May Now Be Launched The Keel Side-Supports for the Cabin May Be Erected Use Ordinary Flooring The Hatch Upper Deck The Rafters Box In Your Cabin This Roof To Contrive a Movable Front The Rudder A Pair of Rowlocks Two or More Ash Poles The Locker A More Simple Set of Plans Canvas-Cabined House-Boat Information for Old Boys The Cost of House-Boats For People of Limited Means Street-Car Cabins FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER XV A CHEAP AND SPEEDY MOTOR-BOAT

The Stern-Board Transcriber's Notes:

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