FO WLING-P UNTS. 47 1 



DIMENSIONS AND DIRECTIONS IN THE USE OF 

 FOWLING-PUNTS. (See opposite Plate.*) 



Double-handed punt for paddling, sculling, or 

 using a set-pole up to fowl, to take a gun of 1 3olbs. 

 to 1 7olbs. weight, and two men of about 1 2 stone 

 apiece. For a gun not exceeding 1 3olbs. this craft 

 may be built gin. shorter on floor and overhead, both 

 4in. narrower ; all else the same as given below. 



Length over all 22ft. 5in. 



Length on floor 22ft. 



Greatest width of floor (that is amidships in a double punt) 3ft. 2in. 



Greatest width at gunwale 3ft. i lin.f 



Height of stem 5^in. 



Height of stern Sin. 



Length of fore-deck 8ft. 3in. 



Length of after-deck 4ft. 2in. 



Greatest width of cockpit 2ft. 6in. 



Width of .side-decks, at half-length of cockpit, each . 9in. 



Each side flared out at most 4|in. 



Round of deck at gunbeam 3! in. 



Coaming, forward, 3^in. high ; aft, 2^ft. ; thick, |in. 



Spring on floor, fore and aft ...... 2^in. 



Kammel, or round athwart-ships ..... ^in. 



Floor-timbers I4in. apart, and a pair of elm knees (fin. to |in. thick) 



to each alternate "one. 



Floor-timbers of elm, i^in. wide on surface by lin. deep. 

 3 after and 5 fore-deck rafters, lin. on surface by iin. deep. 

 Floor-planks, fin. yellow pine. 

 Sides, fin. yellow pine. 

 Decks, -s^in. yellow pine. 



A small double punt that can be sculled or poled 

 to fowl by one man, or will take two light men and 

 a gun of Solbs. to loolbs., may be built, over all, 

 2 1 ft. ; on floor, 2oft. 501. ; floor, at widest, 3ft.; at 



* The rest-handle in this plan (Plate 14) is shown resting on 

 instead of between fore ends of coaming (as it should be) in order to 

 be the more plain. 



f For a gun of isolbs., 3ft. 8in.; floor, 3ft.; all else as above. 



