A YACHT WITH A SILVER BOTTOM.
The sloop yacht Thistle, Mr William Ziegler, A. Y.C., is hauled out at Babylon, Long Island, and undergoing a somewnat unique operation. Her bottom is being entirely covered with sheets of so-called " silver leaf." The process is entirely the same as that of applying gold leaf in gilding, namely :— The yacht's bottom is firat carefully painted over with gold size, then the small tissue-like sheets of metal — each four inches square, and so light that the faintest breath blows them away— are placed one by one upon the sticky surface and gently tapped with wads of cotton. Many thousands of the gossamer metallic sheets are required, as the Thistle is a yacht of some fifty or sixty tons, and the work can only be done when there is no wuid. This is the first vessel ever so treated, and when she turns her silvery bilge out of the water in a regatta she'll be a caution to fishes. It is said that the application coßts about £60.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5558, 28 July 1886, Page 2
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173A YACHT WITH A SILVER BOTTOM. Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5558, 28 July 1886, Page 2
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