| | £ | s. | d. |
| 40 | sheets copper, 2ft. by 4ft., 1lb. to the foot,
at 1s. 6d. per lb., or 12s. each |  | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 200 | square-headed bolts, 1/4in. thick (with nuts),
½in. grip for the skin and ribs, |  | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 180 | ditto ditto ½in. thick, 1¼in. grip for skin, ribs, and stringers, |
| 180 | ditto ditto 3in. grip, for ribs, stringers, and timber heads, |
| 90 | ditto ditto 6in. grip, for keel and
keelson and for clamping the two sections
together when used as a single boat, |
| Equal to 650 bolts, averaging perhaps 10d. each |
| 4lb. | copper rivets, assorted sizes, for repairs | | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 6lb. | copper nails, from 1in. to 3in. | | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| 1lb. | rooves, for clinching nails | | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2 | red deals, straight and clean, 21ft. long, 9in. by 3in., cut into six pieces of 3in. square, of which five will suffice to make the two keels and keelsons; the remaining piece would cut four stringers ¾in. thick. (If these deals could be procured 24ft. long, four pieces would do this, and there would be no necessity for scarfing.) |  | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | deals of 21ft. each, cut into four ¾in. planks; and 1 deal, cut into one 1½in. and two ¾in. planks, would give fourteen ¾in. planks, of which nine would suffice for the two flat sides, two for the gunwales, 4½in. wide, and three with the spare piece mentioned above for the stringers and ribbands, while the 1½in. plank, by careful adaptation of the requisite curves, would cut for the four stems and stern posts, |
| Or equal to 6 deals, say |
| 2 | galls. boiled linseed oil, in tin cans of 1 gall. each | | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 4 | galls. raw linseed oil, in tin cans of 1 gall. each | | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| 28lb. | white lead, in iron kegs of 7lb. each | | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| 14lb. | red ditto ditto ditto | | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| (The cans and kegs will be useful as cooking or water vessels when emptied.) |
| 30lb. | resin | | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 6 | paint-brushes and tools assorted | | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Tinsmith’s small shears or snips | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Engineer’s hammer | | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | punches, from ⅛in. to ½in. | | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 2 | screw-drivers, large and small | | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | screw-wrenches | | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1½in. | auger | | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 1 | brace, and set of bits, including rymers, countersinks,
and bits for metal | | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 3lb. | brass screws, assorted, up to 3in. | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 3 | pieces unbleached calico, double width, for lug
sails, awning, &c. | |
| 12 | copper or composition cringles, small sizes, for
sails and various purposes | |
| Manilla rope, 10 fathoms, 3in., for mooring |  | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ditto 50 fathoms, 1½in. |
| Ditto 50 fathoms, 1in., for running gear, &c. |
| If the boat be built of iron the same size— |
| Forty sheets of plain iron, 2ft. by 6ft., at 4s. 6d. | 9 | 0 | 0 |
All the bolts, screws, nails, and other fastenings, must be of plain iron, and none of them must be galvanised.
Galvanised iron would not be much cheaper than copper, and would be very intractable in working. We should not recommend it to a traveller who intends to build his own boats in the wilderness and expects to have to take them to pieces and rebuild them two or three times.
Tinned charcoal iron would be nearly as expensive as copper, and the fastenings would also have to be tinned.
Plain iron is the only metal on which any saving could be effected, even at the cost of additional labour. In this case, perhaps, three times the amount of paint should be taken.
A mixture of red and white lead, with half boiled and half raw linseed oil, should be used rather thickly for painting the inside of every joint, and all the bolts, screws, or nails, should be thrown into boiled oil, then taken out and allowed to drain and dry before they are used. The boat must be thoroughly well painted after completion, and the paint allowed to harden before she is put into the water.
If the boat is built of wood the same size—
Two deals and a half, as before, for keels, keelsons, stems, and stern posts.
Four deals, each to be cut into four ¾in. planks, for flat sides, gunwales, and stringers.
Five deals, each to be cut into six ½in. planks, or equal to 230 running feet of plank, to stand, when cleaned, not less than ⅝, and 630 feet not less than ⅜.