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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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s in the cut show where to bendthe cardboard to form the four sides of the cabin. Thepilot-house is bent in only one place to form the back, thefront curving round in a half circle. (Fig. 3.) The Cabin After having fastened the sides of the cabin to the hull,place the boat upside down on a sheet of cardboard, andwith a pencil go around the cabin; lift off the boat, andyou will have a pattern for the roof. Cut around the out-lines, leaving a quarter of an inch between your scissorsand the outline. When you fasten on the roof it will pro-ject beyond the sides of the cabin, and this will improve theappearance of your boat. The smoke-stack is made ofthe same material as the cabin, blackened to give it theappearance of being made of iron. To make it circular,roll it around a lead-pencil. The pieces are fastened to-gether by pasting a strip of writing-paper half an inch wideover the joint, half on each side. Fasten the flag-staffsecurely in place by boring a hole with a gimlet in the bow 45
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v .ql^e IIS J &»*5 Fig. 3 WORKING PLANS HOW TO MAKE A TOY STEAMBOAT of the boat, and then the vessel will be ready to be launchedwith appropriate ceremonies. The boilers will never burst, and when the steam givesout it is only necessary to pull the string to procure a newsupply that will send the little paddle-wheels whirling withrenewed vigor, to the great delight of everybody. Chapter V A BOAT WITH A SCREW PROPELLER TO make a model steamboat that will go is the ambitionof many boys, but the high price of engine and boilerprevents them from doing so. The instructions here givenwill enable any boy to make for himself, by the exercise ofa little ingenuity, at a very trifling cost, the machinery fora model screw steamboat which may be fitted into anycraft, the rigging of which may have been wrecked off thedangerous coast of the duck-pond. First you must procure your boat; but if you shouldwish to make it yourself, remember that it must be verylight and hollowed out as thin as possi

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