South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 46, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 15 February 1920 — Page 27

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Building a Motor Boat By James J. Montarjue

Thre was nothing to do aft r j ani hit mo vindictively on my man pave mo a motor t.nit m- chest, fief or any part of my rrr:ne but to build a motor boat. Ho son that hai.rened to bo in their waa leaving town, and ho dhln't ! trajectorj'.

want tho onsin. which he had bought, hoping to uo it himself. He was a fjuick tampered man. Th offer h pot for it when he put !t on tho market Inult-d him. So. rather than live in a continual Late of fury at thj parsimony of prospective customers ho pave It to me. The tho'JKht of having a motor l.oat of ray own thrillod me. What could be ple.uanter than plicilnf: over the waves, the salt spray dashIn? In your face, an.d knowing every p'.ank of the trusty craft that bore vo-j v n as you know your own

rf I borrowed a of patterns from "Wft man who had Ftartel to build his own boat, but pot tired of the Job. How he could wein' of auch a de

lightful task I could rot umlerftand. I knew that once. I pot start cd, I should f.niah the job. I was rirht about that. I did finish It. I did a little Khopplnsr at the lumber yard and tho hardware store. ur.d for several days wapons kpt backing up to the front gate and unloading lumber. It was astonishing how muui lumber Feemed to be required for one rmall motor boat. Most of my friends thought I was polng to build an addition to tho house, and when I told thm the stuff wa for a boat, asked If I wan one of thoe nuts who was polnc; to clrcumnavipate the pTobe In my own craft. Hardware, tools, paint and varnish co?t more than I expected. Indeed they cort more than I expected a stam yacht would co?t. Put I didn't know much about boats then, T armnped to pay for thm on Instalments, and feci cheerfully to work. The first requeue In buildinp a jcfit is a eteam box. A steam box I .1 lonp square contrivance, connected with a holler which In turn

Lis heated b7 a ppecially desipnert htove. It costs too much to buy, so I rented one from a boat yard for .about the rental of an averape rtlV'en room house. Into the cteam box you put the oak lumber for the r!b, pteep It for a. few days In eteam. and take it 1 out eo limber, theoretically you can J tie Imots in It. But there was either something

tho matter with my oak or with my fctcam. box. When I took out the embroyo ribs they were but little more plastlo than when I put them in. I could. It ie true, bend some of them over the moulds I had made, but If I let po of them suddenly they would fly back like catapault.

I fastened it on with rivets. I ham-l , mered the rivets from below, while !

I a email member of the family held a hammer against them on the inside.

It was a noisy operation. Mo.st of the neighbors thought I was building a cellar to hold a stock I had purchased on the cjuiet. They came to the hour"4 In considerable numbers In the evenings sitting around and ey ing me hopefully, and talking about their

Moreover rno.st of them broke or split, and I had to send f-r mor rib material two or tbr"e times

Hut after threo weck3 I could go .stupid negligence in not getting anj

Into tho cellar where I had set up my ship yard, and view with pride a beautifully curved skeleton boat, much resembling all that is left of a whale when you arrive at the summer report where it washed ashore tho previous winter. The next thing to do was to put on the planks. This was easy at first. I be "an with tho gar boards which are the planks next the keel When I had got a plank clamped to the frame I bored it with holt's, and

of their own, and their suffering from the deprivation prohibition had imposed on them. When I said I was in the same fix they first looked incredulous thr-n sore. And usually when they went out they slammed the door. Not only was the riveting noisy, but it was bad for the house. Plaster bcyan to jar loose from the celling of the kitchen and ran into the cooking. During a busy riveting session the house would rock like a

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ship in a Ftorm. The plumhinc carao apart In several rdncts. Im t forra th" attic, which fancied It ha-! tU.( ihn houie with an imptne-tr.tl-le fi.?. It pot so aftT a while that I couH only work when the head of the family was out. and had to he prepared for hard words when she rime lack. The barhoards went on all rlpht. and so did the next planks, but they bet;an to fit worse and worue aa I worked up toward the punwales. You ran calk a seam a quarter of an Inch wide, but a scam a foot In width, even if stuffed with an enormous amount of cotton and putt would probably not be water-tight especially If the boat was laboring In a rough sea. Try arf I would, I could not make the edges of those planks meet at more than two or three places. A last I was compelled to shape patches to fit into the interstices. Thep didn't look workmanlike, but I f.curM that paint and putty would hide them from critical eyes By the middle of January the boat was ready to launch. Puttlee1 and painted she was not so bad. True, she was not exactly sylphlike, but she looked as if she would float, and even show a little speed. I sent for tho neighbors who had proudly exhibited my handiwork. They admired it with restraint. On of them said: "She's a fair job for an amateur.

but she's five ft et In tho beam and j yur doors are two and a half feeti wide. Furthermore you'll have to

take her to pieces to f;et her up the cellar tairs. "Where you polng to sail her down here?" I hadn't thought of that. I don't want to pull the house down and I don't like to take the boat apart ngiln. I have given the problem a lot of thought, but somehow or other there doesn't appear to be any solution. (Copyright, 1920.)

BLACK AIR ACCOUNTS FOR LACK OF ENERGY

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