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Boat-Building
and Boating
boys on a boat (sort of like a small houseboat)
Bound for a good time

Boat-Building
and Boating

By
D. C. BEARD



With Many Illustrations
by the Author




NEW YORK
Charles Scribner's Sons
1931
Copyright, 1911, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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Printed in the United States of America
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SPECIAL NOTICE
All the material in this book, both text and cuts, is original with theauthor and invented by him; and warning is hereby given that theunauthorized printing of any portion of the text and the reproductionof any of the illustrations or diagrams are expressly forbidden.




embelem: The Scribner Press
AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
TOM AND HI

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PREFACE

This is not a book for yacht-builders, but it is intended forbeginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wishto make something with which they may navigate the watersof ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with the most primitivecrafts composed of slabs or logs and works up to scows, house-boats,skiffs, canoes and simple forms of sailing craft, a motor-boat,and there it stops. There are so many books and magazinesdevoted to the higher arts of ship-building for the graduatesto use, besides the many manufacturing houses which furnish allthe parts of a sail-boat, yacht, or motor-boat for the ambitiousboat-builder to put together himself, that it is unnecessary for theauthor to invade that territory.

Many of the designs in this book have appeared in magazinesto which the author contributed, or in his own books on generalsubjects, and all these have been successfully built by hundreds ofboys and men.

Many of them are the author's own inventions, and the othersare his own adaptations of well-known and long-tried models.In writing and collecting this material for boat-

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