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beam-end connection. The final touches are 

 the clamps below the shelves and the spirketing 

 above the waterways, with short-stuff between 

 the clamps of one deck and the spirketing of 

 the next below. 



All this is only the merest suggestion of 

 what is done for the main part of the vessel's 

 hull. The ends require many modifications, 

 because the shape there approaches a V, and 

 so the floors cannot cross the keel as holding 

 bodies. But the breast-hooks forward and 

 crutches aft, the deck transom, which is the 

 foundation for the deck abaft as well as the 

 assemblage of timbers uniting the stern to 

 the body of the vessel, with all the other parts 

 that make up the ends, cannot be more than 

 mentioned here. Then come the decks, which 

 are quite complex in themselves, and still more 

 complex by reason of the mast-holes and 

 hatchways cut out of them all, and the wind- 

 lass, bitts, and capstan built into the one that 

 is exposed to the storm. To make sure that 

 whatever strength is taken out by cutting is 

 restored in some other way, and that the 

 exposed deck which has to resist the strains 

 put upon the structures built into it is specially 

 reinforced, the most careful provision must be 

 made for the mast-holes ; for the hatchways 



