DESCRIPTION OF BOAT 07 



in luy opinion, the cabin. This was about sixteen feet 

 long by eight broad, with nearly seven feet head room. 

 Owing to the flat nature of the floor of tlie boat there 

 were no awkward triangular lockers or cupboards, but 

 the whole inside was as square as a room in a house 

 ashore, and was thus available to be made use of in 

 the most advantageous manner for shelves and lockers. 

 A doorway was fitted at the fore and after ends, with 

 a booby-hatch over each and steps leading down from 

 the deck (for tlie floor of the cabin was only four inches 

 from the flat bottom of the boat), a ventilator beino- 

 fitted above. The roof was slightly rounded and 

 covered with English sail-cloth well painted ; windows- 

 were fitted at the sides, to which were attached wooden 

 blinds. There was a gangway space of a foot on each 

 side of the cabin, forming a deck plank or waterway to 

 the gunwale. Just before and just abaft the cabin were 

 secured by lashings to the frame of the boat two 

 athwartships spars of about six inches in diameter, and 

 projecting a foot beyond either gunwale. Great care was 

 taken in their fitting and securing, as they play an im- 

 portant part in the tracking up-stream as well as being 

 a support for the liuloes or sculls, which are worked 

 on a small pin driven into their outer ends. The huloes 

 were about thirt}' feet long and made in two pieces, 

 the blade and the loom. The blade is a plank or 



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