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How to Row, Sail, and Build a Boat, Handsomely Illustrated, Giving Full Instruction in Rowing, Sailing, and Building A Boat. Also Advice in Swimming and Riding. The Most Complete and Cheapest Book Published.
Author
Tousey, Frank.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Journal
Language
English
Publish Date
1900
Publisher
New York : Frank Tousey
Series
Ten cent handbooks > no. 26
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Ten cent handbooks -- no. 26
Topic
Popular literature > Specimens. Boats and boating > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Sailing > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Riding > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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6 now To now, SAIL AND BUILD A BOAT.
A Imnm; is asmall light boat used in river rowing, and made
with her bow and h‘1,t'1'l1 nearly alike.
TIIE C().lI1’0NEN’1‘ I’Ait’I‘S OF BOATS.
um hows (1) ; the stem, or entrance
ROWlll“‘ boats ooiisist of ,
" re the rudder and the lines for steer-
(2); the stern (8), where [L
ing; the rowlocks (3), for giving purchase to the oats; and the
thwarts, or Spats (4), At the bottom are the foot-boards (5),
whicli are easily removed, in order to bail out any water which
iiiav lezik into the boat. Besiili’-s tli(-Se parts, there is 8. board
;I;iI=eil (tl,'l'()H.‘w' the boat for the feet of the rower, called (1 stretcher.
‘hi; whole boat is composed of one or more planks, called
sti-e.-ilcs, nailed upon a light oak Ii'amework, called the timbers,
or ribs: and the upper streak, u )On which the rowlocks are
pl2l(‘1‘,Ii, is called the wale-streak. Boats with two rowlocks op-
posite ezieli other are called seulliug boats,‘ and are propelled by
ii Dill!‘ of light oars culled seulls; the art being called “ seulling.’
Wli en a boat is fitted with a pair of rowloeks not opposite each
other it is called a pair-oiired boat. It with two in the middle
opposite each other, and two others, one before and the other
lmllllld, but not opposite each other, it is called at ramdan.
When ii boat has four rowloeks, none of which are opposite one
anotlier, it is called a four-oared boat, and so on up to ten oars,
whit-.li is the utmost limit in common use for any kind of boat
but the pleasure barge, which sometimes has twenty-four oars,
as in the City l):lI‘;:,t.'S of London. The rowloek Iliearest the bow
is called the how rowloek, or No. 1; the next No. 2. and so on; and
the ears used in them receive the saint: number, the one neiirest
the stern being: called the “stroke oar.” The rowloeks in river
and sea boats are somewhat diiferent in shape, though identical
in principle, both consisting: of a square space of about the
brexidth of a man’s hand, and both lying on the Wale-streak; but
in river boats being generally bounded before and behind by ii
flat. piece of oak or ash called, respectively, the thowl-pin and
stopper; whilst in sea boats they are merely common round
wooden pins dropped into holes made in the wale-streak; but
still receiving the same names. The thowl-pin is for the pur-
pose of pulling the ear against, whilst the stopper prevents the
ear from slip ping forwards when the rower is pushing it in that
direction after the stroke.
THE OARS AND SCULLS.
A seull is a small our used with one hand, and requiring a. pair,
as in the case of oars, one being placed in the rowlock on each