Boat-Building and Boating. Daniel Carter Beard
To Transform an Ordinary Skiff or Scow Into a Sailing-Boat
CHAPTER XIII A "ROUGH-AND-READY" BOAT
CHAPTER XIV HOW TO BUILD CHEAP AND SUBSTANTIAL HOUSE-BOATS
House-Boat as a Fashionable Fad
Side-Supports for the Cabin May Be Erected
CHAPTER XV A CHEAP AND SPEEDY MOTOR-BOAT
PREFACE
This is not a book for yacht-builders, but it is intended for beginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wish to make something with which they may navigate the waters of ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with the most primitive crafts composed of slabs or logs and works up to scows, house-boats, skiffs, canoes and simple forms of sailing