Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... since the slightest observation on thcm, would furnish us with every particular, especially for the student. Clincher-built boats have their keels, sterns, stern posts, and transoms trimmed and fixed as to boats carvel-built; and to bring the planking on to the form, two, three, or more moulds, of the form intended to be given, are fixed firmly at their proper stations on the keel, when the planking is brought on; while, sometimes the breadths of the strikes are set off on the midship timber and the rising taken of each strake, without the application of moulds, when they are set fair by the eye, as they are brought on. The first strake worked is the garboard; when this is fixed, the next stfake is brought to land upon it, working one slrake on the other in this manner to the upper. The strakes are in two or more lengths, scarphed with a flat scirph, the foremost always lapping on the aftermost shift; and the scarphs have tarred paper placed in the joints, and are nailed with flats from the thin end. Forward and aft, the planks are chased into each other, that is, a rabbet is taken the depth of the land, and of the plank below, to a sharp at the rabbet of the stem and stern post, and coming to nothing from 9 to 12 inches along, for their outer surfaces. to be fair at the rabbets of the stem and stern post. To fasten the strakes the stations of the timbers are set off, sometimes for the floors to be in the middle between the futtocks, and in some boats for the floors and fnttocks to be close together. When spaced between, the fastenings are placed one in the middle between the floor and futtock, and above the floor-head, in a line with it; but when the floor and futtocks come together, there are two nails between each. The nails are all...
