Boat-Building and Boating

About this eBook

Author

Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941

Credits

E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Emmy, Henry Gardiner, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

VM: Naval science: Naval architecture, Shipbuilding, Marine engineering

Subject

Boats and boating

Category

Text

eBook-No.

44228

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44228

Release Date

November 18, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Boat-Building and Boating
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.Boat-Building and Boating
5. 5.BOAT-BUILDING AND BOATING
6. 6.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
7. 7.CHAPTER II HOME-MADE BOATS — The Crusoe Raft — The Chump's Raft — A Chump's Raft of Logs
8. 8.CHAPTER III A RAFT THAT WILL SAIL — The Deck — The Sail — The Keelig
9. 9.CHAPTER IV CANOES — Slab Canoe — The Dugout — How to Build a Siwash Canoe — How to Make a White Man's Dugout Canoe
10. 10.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
11. 11.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
12. 12.CHAPTER VII HOW TO BUILD A PADDLING DORY — How to Calk a Boat so That It Won't Leak
13. 13.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
14. 14.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
15. 15.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
16. 16.CHAPTER XI KNOTS, BENDS, AND HITCHES — How to Make a Horse-Hair Watch-Guard — Miscellaneous — Whiplashes — Splices, Timber-Hitches, etc.
17. 17.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
18. 18.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
19. 19.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:
20. 20.CHAPTER XV A CHEAP AND SPEEDY MOTOR-BOAT — The Stern-Board — Transcriber's Notes:

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