RILEY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

RILEY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

A MODEL SAILING YACHT. : This week- I want to tell you how to make .a smart little sailing yacht, which will provide plenty of fun at the seaside or on a pond in the park. For the hull you need a piece of straight-grained wood, twelve inches long, three-and-a-half inches wide and one-and-a-half inches thick. Mark a centre line along both surfaces of the wood, then carefully outline the shape of the hull, as shown in • diagram A. With a tenon saw roughly cut away the parts marked B, and carve the hull to shape with a wide chisel. Diagram C shows a side view of the hull when finished, and diagram D a section taken through the widest part. After you have shaped the hull satisfactorily, rub it all over with glasspaper. To make the keel, take a piece of three-eighths- inch wood, seven inches long arid three and three-quai-ter inches wide, and cut it to the shape shown in diagram E. Taper the front part at F to form a narrow edge. One each side of the bottom of the keel, nail a halfround strip of lead, half an inch wide, as indicated at G.

Now cut a slot three-eighths of an inch wide and three-eighths of an inch deep along the centre of the bottom of the hull, and fix the keel in place with

three long fine hails, as shown in diagram C. ■ - Wooden knittjpg needles about a quarter'of an inch in diameter can be used for the mast and spars, the lengths of which are. given in the first diagram. Fix the bowsprit to the deck with two wire..staples, and make a hole in the deck, about three-quarters of an inch deep, for the mast. Cut the sails from fine white linen to the sizes given, allowing about a quarter of an inch extra all round for the hems. Use very thin twine for the rigging, and attach the ends of the shrouds, H, to small screws fixed in the deck. To complete the boat, fix a small rudder, the top part working in a hole made through the hull and the lower part held by two tiny wire staples. Give the hull two coats of white enamel, and paint a quarter-inch band of bright blue all round the top edge. -The-Hut Carpenter.