Boat-Building and Boating
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Boat-Building and Boating, by Daniel Carter Beard, Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard
Boat-Building and Boating
Bound for a good time
By D. C. BEARD With Many Illustrations by the Author NEW YORK Charles Scribner's Sons 1931
Copyright, 1911, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ——————— Printed in the United States of America ——————— SPECIAL NOTICE
All the material in this book, both text and cuts, is original with the author and invented by him; and warning is hereby given that the unauthorized printing of any portion of the text and the reproduction of any of the illustrations or diagrams are expressly forbidden.
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TOM AND HI
This is not a book for yacht-builders, but it is intended for beginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wish to make something with which they may navigate the waters of ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with the most primitive crafts composed of slabs or logs and works up to scows, house-boats, skiffs, canoes and simple forms of sailing craft, a motor-boat, and there it stops. There are so many books and magazines devoted to the higher arts of ship-building for the graduates to use, besides the many manufacturing houses which furnish all the parts of a sail-boat, yacht, or motor-boat for the ambitious boat-builder to put together himself, that it is unnecessary for the author to invade that territory.
Many of the designs in this book have appeared in magazines to which the author contributed, or in his own books on general subjects, and all these have been successfully built by hundreds of boys and men.
Many of them are the author's own inventions, and the others are his own adaptations of well-known and long-tried models. In writing and collecting this material for boat-builders from his other works and placing them in one volume, the author feels that he is fulfilling the wishes of many of his old readers and offering a useful book to a large audience of new recruits to the army of those who believe in the good old American doctrine of: If you want a thing done, do it yourself. And by doing it yourself you not only add to your skill and resourcefulness, but, what is even more important, you develop your own self-reliance and manhood.
Daniel Carter Beard
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
Boat-Building and Boating
BOAT-BUILDING AND BOATING
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
The Crusoe Raft
The Chump's Raft
A Chump's Raft of Logs
The Deck
The Sail
The Keelig
Slab Canoe
The Dugout
How to Build a Siwash Canoe
How to Make a White Man's Dugout Canoe
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
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
How to Calk a Boat so That It Won't Leak
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
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
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
How to Make a Horse-Hair Watch-Guard
Miscellaneous
Whiplashes
Splices, Timber-Hitches, etc.
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
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
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:
The Stern-Board
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