BUILD OF GONDOLA. 475 



coats or ammunition dry. The fishermen's gon- 

 dolas are built with their sides plainly screwed to 

 the edges of floor, with knees not even cut to the 

 grain and carvel-sided, of spruce or other cheap 



PLAIN KNEE FOR GONDOLA. 



wood. They can't afford pine. Yet their gondolas 

 stand seven or eight years' constant rough work, 

 winter and summer. The above is the cheapest 

 and lightest method of building such a craft, but 

 endless ribs, cant piece round edge of floor, clinker- 



CANT PIECE AND BENT KNEE FOR GONDOLA. 



built sides and yellow-pine planking is a great 

 improvement in many ways. A long paddle is 

 useful aboard a gondola in a large one to steer her 

 when sailing, in a small one to push her about with. 



