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are utilized in the construction of eighteen 

 closets and twelve large drawers. Under her 

 after decks are built three water-tanks which 

 give running water in four state-rooms, the 

 wash-room, galley and crew's quarters. 



I attained safety in constructing her of 

 the best and the heaviest material. Her 

 outside skin is of 2 -inch heart pine, her ribs 

 4-inch oak doubled, and her inside skin 2 -inch 

 heart pine. Her planking outside and inside 

 is fastened to her ribs with 6 -inch galvanized 

 iron spikes. Her crossbeams overhead are 

 6 and 8 -inch heart pine. Her masts are 

 single sticks, the foremast 80 feet and the 

 mainmast 72 feet, and she is rigged with the 

 Chesapeake Buckeye Sharp Sail, the safest 

 and most powerful sail that can be put on a 

 boat for heavy work in winter gales. 



This Buckeye rig gave me the most eco- 

 nomical yacht that could be built. It costs 

 only $30 to put a new set of running rigging 

 on her, and I never hire more than two men 



