ON BUILDING A FOWLING-PUNT. 463 



Jin. thick, nailed over joints of floor boards. Floor- 

 timbers, with proper curve to give kammel, fastened 

 to floor above the ribbons, and sunk over them, 

 and one twice the width of the others fastened 

 down under where gunbeam will end the fore-deck, 

 to take the crutch that supports weight of gun. 

 Spring fore and aft given by props under ends, and 

 stem and stern blocks shaped (see pages 450,457) and 



HOW TO FIX GUNBEAM. 



Ends to be propped with a small knee underneath, as are the 

 deck-rafters (see page 460). 



fixed. Strips nailed down from stem to stern on 

 edges of floor (mind the nails are put as near the 

 inside edge of each strip as possible, or they will 

 come in the way when bevelling for the sides). To 

 assist this sloping, which must next be done, they 

 may project a quarter of an inch. Sides nailed on 

 (as planks) and screwed to edge of floor-planks, 

 to stem and stern, and riveted to strips. When 

 so fixed, cut to proper height, found by running a 

 level strip joining top of stem to top of stern in a 

 straight line, and then fix on the square strips that 

 run along their inside top edge from stem to stern 

 side-knees fitted (pages 446 and 460). Gunbeam 

 and rafters to be stepped into the strip running 

 along, and riveted to inside top of sides, and 



