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pare French verdigris. The inside of the planking, underneath the 

 ceiling, is payed with bright varnish, with enough dry paint mixed 

 with it to make a heavy body. The color of the boat is as follows: The 

 bottom, below water-line, green ; the bends, white, with vermilion 

 stripe ; the top streak, gunwale, and inside top work, as far down as 

 the lower edge of risings, straw color; the platform, green, and the 

 ceiling amber color. 



Oars. — The oars are straight-grained white ash, of the following 

 dimensions : One steering oar, length, 16 feet ; two rowing oars, length, 

 14 feet; four rowing oars, length, 13 feet; two rowing oars, length, 12 

 feet. 



Fittings. — The boat is provided with the following articles of equip- 

 ment. All these implements are. of the best galvanized malleable or 

 wrought iron : 



10 row-locks, of seine-boat pattern. 



2 patent steering row- locks. 



1 pursing-davit, 22 inches long. 



8 oar-holders. 



1 tow-link, with hooks. 



1 side-link, with eye. 



1 towing pin. 



4 malleable iron pursing-blocks, with 

 5-inch wooden sheaves, and brass pat- 

 ent-roller bushings. 



1 davit-guard. 



2 pursing-cleats. 



4 eye-plates for oar-holders. 

 2 eye-plates for leading-blocks. 



18. DINGHY. 



The Dinghy is an open, carvel-built, square stern, keel boat. It is 

 built of seasoned white and grey oak and white swamp-cedar, fitted to 

 pull four oars, fastened with copper ; all fastenings are riveted over 

 copper burrs on the inside. She is sloop-rigged, carrying a loose- 

 footed sprit mainsail and jib, the latter tacking down to the stem -head. 



The following are the detailed dimensions : Length over all, 17 feet ; 

 breadth, 5 feet; depth, 2 feet 1 inch. 



Keel, of oak, 2 J inches deep by 1§ inches wide. 



Stem, oak, sided 3 inches, molded f inch back to lg inches. 



Stern-post, sided on bottom end 6 inches, tapered to If inches on top, 

 bearded up on outside 1J inches to 1J inches. 



Stern, oak, If inches thick. 



Floors, oak, 1£ inches by 1 J inches, tapering at upper end to lj-inches. 



Frames, white oak, -steamed and bent to proper form, 1£ to If inches 

 at bottom and bilge, tapering at top to 1£ inches, and spaced 12 inches 

 from center to center. 



Gunwales, oak, If inches by If inches. \ 



Flanking, topstreak of clear grey oak, § inch thick ; remainder of 

 plank white swamp cedar, well seasoned, f inch thick. 



Ribband for thwarts, of oak, 1J inches by f inch. 



Stern-sheets and thwarts, of ash, 1J inches thick. 



Thivarts, 8 inches wide. Stern-sheets vary in width from 9 inches to 

 about 1 foot. There is a turned ash stanchion under the center of each 

 thwart, to support it. Each thwart has two juniper knees on either end, 

 to hold it in place. 



