GUNNING-PUNT ACCESSORIES 



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It must be remembered that the seat should be strongly 

 made. Yellow pine will serve well. The legs may be better 

 and stronger if made of oak. The hinges should, of course, 

 be brass. Like all other things inboard the punt, paint seats 

 with red lead. Turning seats are not suitable articles for true 

 gunning-punts. They are found chiefly in light boats used for 

 duck-shooting with shoulder guns. 



Foot-stretchers are useful to assist the rowing of a punt. 



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We figure a simple form, consisting of bar and end pieces. 

 Into the end pieces are dowelled two round oak pegs, f in. 

 diameter. These pegs fit through holes in the ceiling boards, 

 and thus mount the stretcher. By pushing with the feet 

 against the bar in a downward direction, a better purchase on 

 the water may be secured by the oars. If a punt is built 

 strongly and will stand it, a simple form of foot-bar can be 

 arranged by fitting a bar from side to side in a similar manner 

 to the seat previously mentioned. The foot-bar and end pieces 

 answer well in oak. Greenheart (Bebeera) is an improvement 

 as a wood of which to make the foot-bar. 



