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Home-Made Boats.
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bottom, nail a ¾-inch long bottom board (Figs. 76 and 77). Next cut two small boards of ¾-inch plank; make them 7 inches wide and about I foot 5 inches long; cut out a place in one end of each, as shown by A, Fig. 76; these are to serve as rowlocks,

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Fig. 75.

and should be nailed with wrought-iron nails to the inside of the boat, so that the centres of the rowlocks are about 4 feet 10 inches from the end which will be the stern of the boat; this is the simplest style of rowlock, but a much neater one can be made by using thole-pins (Fig. 77, B).

Turn the boat upon its side and nail a strip 11 feet long, 2 inches wide, and I inch thick upon the upper edge of the side board; repeat the operation on the other side, using wrought nails and clinching them. If thole-pins are intended to be used,

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Fig. 76.

before nailing the strips upon the sides, 4 feet 9 inches from one end of each strip cut, a notch in the side ½ inch deep and 1½ wide; 3 inches from this notch, or 5 feet from the same end, cut another similar notch. When these strips are nailed on

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