SHIP BUILDING. 
transom at tlie post, and above it set up 
4 feet, and draw another horizontal line, 
which will be the height of the lower coun- 
ter; then set up, from the wing transom, 
7 feet 6 inches, drawing another horizontal 
line, which will be the height of the upper 
counter; then set off abaft the aft-side of 
the wing transom 6 feet 10 inches, and 
square it up the line at the height of 'the 
lower counter, and the intersection with 
the knuckle of the lower counter ; then, 
from the said knuckle, draw a curve line 
about 5 inches hollow to intersect the up- 
^er-side of the wing transom at the fore-side 
of the rabbet on the stern post, and the 
lower counter will be represented at tlieinid- 
dle line ; then setoff abaft the aft-side of the 
wing transom 8 feet 10 inches, and square 
up a line to the height of the upper coun- 
ter, and their intersection will be the knuc- 
kle of the upper counter ; then to the two 
knuckles draw a curve about 2 inches hol- 
low, and that will represent the upper coiui- 
ter. Both counters being formed at the 
middle line, the upper part of the stem 
timber must be thus finished ; set up, as 
before, 14 feet 7 inches, the height of the 
top-timber line aft, draw a horizontal line; 
then set off abaft the aft-side of the wing 
transom 11 feet, and square it up to the 
top-timber line, a straight line now drawn 
from the upper counter knuckle, and through 
the mtersection at the top timber line, and 
the stern timber at the middle line is com- 
plete. 
Then observe, as the stern in its breadth 
rounds two ways, th^t is both up and aft, 
the stern timber at the side will alter from 
that at the middle line, and must be thus 
drawn : take the round top of the upper 
counter, which is 10 inches, and set it 
below its knuckle at the middle timber in 
the sheer plan, and draw an horizontal line ; 
then take the round aft, which is 16 inches 
(on a level), and set it forward fiom the 
knuckle of the middle timber, and square 
it down to the line last draw'ii, and where it 
intersects will be the knuckle of the up- 
per counter at the side. In the same man- 
ner set down 8 inches for the round up, and 
forward 15 inches for the round aft, and 
tliat will be the knuckle of the lower coun- 
ter at the side ; then a curve being drawn 
similar to that at the middle timber from 
one knuckle to the other, will form the up- 
per counter at the side ; then to finish the 
lower counter at the side, set down 5 inches 
the round up, below the upper side of the 
wing transom in the sheer plan, and draw 
an horizontal line ; then take 7 inches the 
round aft of the wing transom, and set it 
forward from the aft-side of the wing tran- 
som upon its upper side, and square it down 
to the line last drawn, and the intersection 
will be the aft-side of the side stern timber; 
then a curve drawn similar to that at the 
middle from the side low'er counter knuckle 
to the aft-side last set off, will represent the 
lower counter at the side. But as the 
straight line for the upper part of the side 
timber will not be parallel to that at the 
middle, owing to the stern narrowing up- 
wards, its rake must be determined as fol- 
low : upon any straight line set off 26 feet 
8 inches, the breadth of the stern at the 
upper counter, and at the middle set off 
16 inches the round aft, then let an arch 
pass through this point and the half breadths 
of the stern on the line; this may be per- 
formed by a small drawing bow or a mould 
swept with a radius equal to that segment. 
Now set off 12 feet, the half breadth of the 
stern at the top timber line on each side the 
middle to intersect the round aft at the 
upper counter, and through these intersec- 
tions draw a line parallel to the other, and 
the distance from the line last drawm to 
arch in the middle is the distance that the 
side stern timber is from the after timbers, \ 
at the height of the top- timber line; then a 
line drawn through this spot to the knuckle 
of the upper counter at the side, completes 
the side counter timber. 
■ Now the. fore and aft view of the side 
counter timber may be drawn in the body 
plan, representing the half breadth of the 
stern. Draw an horizontal line across the 
after body plan, at the height of the upper 
side of the wing transom at the middle, 
thereon set off the half breadth of the wing 
transom from the half breadth plan, and 
there square down a line, and on that line 
set down 5 inches, or what is the same 
thing, transfer the heigljl of the wing tran- 
som at the side from the sheer plan ; then 
sweep an arch to cut the upper side of the 
wing transom at the side and middle, the 
centre of the radius being found in the 
middle line of the body plan ; then draw a 
horizontal line, as before, at the height of 
each knuckle transferred from the side 
timber in the sheer to the body plan ; then 
transfer the heights of the knuckles of the 
middle sterq timber from the sheer, up the 
middle line of the body plan ; then to ob- 
tain the half breadth at each knuckle, the 
