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Title: Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed
Subjects: Boats and boating
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ards are twelve inches wide, and with thethickness of the deck and bottom planking it will make thetotal depth about fourteen inches. Through the middle astrengthening rib is run the same size and thickness as theouter sides as shown in Fig. 31. This gives an additionalrib to nail the sheathing boards to and also an anchorage towhich the uprights forming the seat frame can be made fastwith bolts. The outriggers that suspend the wheels are of spruce twoinches thick and three inches wide. They are bolted to thedeck and at the outer end U-notches are cut for the axle ofthe wheels to fit into and capped with iron straps such asshown in Fig. 32. A blacksmith will make these for youfrom strap-iron an eighth of an inch thick and two inches7 89 BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS wide. They should be bolted on when the wheels are in position, for they not only have to support the weight of the wheels but also stand the action of the water against them. The wheels are each twenty-four inches in diameter and
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BOATS WHICH BOYS CAN BUILD two feet long, and are made from wood seven-eighths ofan inch in thickness. Seven blades eight inches wide arescrewed fast to the sides or held in place with long, galvan-ized boat nails. The axle is of spruce two inches square, and the wheelsides are provided with square holes through which the axleis driven as shown in Fig. 33. The ends of the axle are band-ed with iron, or copper wire may be wound round them toprevent their splitting. Into the ends half-inch round ironpins are driven which revolve in the bearings. The seat-frame is thirty inches high and made from sprucerails three inches wide and one inch and a half in thickness.On the middle upright a large and small gear wheel arearranged on an axle with the cranks and pedals, and on thefront post a small wheel is attached so that tandem powermay be used on the paddle-wheels or one boy alone canwork the boat. A rod and handle-bars may be arranged forthe rear boy to grasp, and with a socket and set-scre

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