BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1930, Page 24 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

MAKING A TOY SAIIING BOAT. This little boat, which you can make quite easily if you follow instructions carefully, will provide plenty of fun when you take it for a sail on a pond or in the sea. The hull of the boat is made from a piece of wood, nine inches long, two and a half inches wide and one inch thick. Make lines along the top and bottom of the wood, and then carefully mark out the shape of the hull, as shown in diagram' B. With your tenon saw, roughly cut away the parts C.C. and also the corners at the back. Now carve the hull to shape with your chisel. If you study diagrains A and D you will see what the front and side should look like when finished. Rub the hull all over with glasspaper. For the keel, take a piece of threeeighths inch wood, five and a-half inches long and two inches wide, and saw it to the size given at E. Taper the front part at F, so that it forms a narrow edge. On .each side of the bottom of the keel, nail a strip of thin lead about half an inch wide. To fix the keel in place, cut a slot, three-eighths of an inch wide, along [ the centre of the bottom of the hull, and, after glueing the keel in place, drive in a couple of fine nails as shown in diagram D. Wooden knitting needles, about three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, can be need for the mast and spars, the lengths of which are given in the first diagram. The bowsprit is fixed to the deck by two wire staples, and the bottom of the mast is pushed into a hole, about three-quarters of an inch deep, in the hull. Cut the sails out of fine white linen to the sizes given, allowing a quarter of an inch extra all round for homing. Use very thin twine for the rigging, and attach the ends of the shrouds to small screw-eyes fixed in the deck. To complete the boat, fit a small rudder, the top part working in a holo in the hull, and the bottom held by two wire staples. After giving the hull two coats of white enamel” paint a quarter-inch band of bright red or blue all round and, when quite dry, the smart little craft will be ready for its trial trip. The Hut Carpenter.