FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER XV
A CHEAP AND SPEEDY MOTOR-BOAT
How To Build the Jackson Glider—A Very Simple Form of Motor-Boat, Which Will Hold Its Own in Speed With Even Expensive Boats of Double Horse-Power
This boat is intended to slide over the top of the water and not through it, consequently it is built in the form of a flat-bottom scow. Order your wood dressed on both sides, otherwise it will come with one side rough. For the side-boards we need two pine, or cedar boards, to measure, when trimmed, 14 feet ([Fig. 228]), and to be 16 or 18 inches wide.