
Boat-Building and Boating
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- Boat-Building and Boating
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- Boat-Building and Boating
- BOAT-BUILDING AND BOATING
- CHAPTER I HOW TO CROSS A STREAM ON A LOG
- 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
- CHAPTER II HOME-MADE BOATS
- The Crusoe Raft
- The Chump's Raft
- A Chump's Raft of Logs
- CHAPTER III A RAFT THAT WILL SAIL
- The Deck
- The Sail
- The Keelig
- CHAPTER IV CANOES
- Slab Canoe
- The Dugout
- How to Build a Siwash Canoe
- How to Make a White Man's Dugout Canoe
- CHAPTER V CANOES AND BOATING STUNTS
- 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
- CHAPTER VI THE BIRCH-BARK
- 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
- CHAPTER VII HOW TO BUILD A PADDLING DORY
- How to Calk a Boat so That It Won't Leak
- CHAPTER VIII THE LANDLUBBER'S CHAPTER
- 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
- CHAPTER IX HOW TO RIG AND SAIL SMALL BOATS
- 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
- CHAPTER X MORE RIGS OF ALL KINDS FOR SMALL BOATS
- 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
- CHAPTER XI KNOTS, BENDS, AND HITCHES
- How to Make a Horse-Hair Watch-Guard
- Miscellaneous
- Whiplashes
- Splices, Timber-Hitches, etc.
- CHAPTER XII HOW TO BUILD A CHEAP BOAT
- 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
- CHAPTER XIII A "ROUGH-AND-READY" 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
- CHAPTER XIV HOW TO BUILD CHEAP AND SUBSTANTIAL HOUSE-BOATS
- 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:
- CHAPTER XV A CHEAP AND SPEEDY MOTOR-BOAT
- The Stern-Board
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