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Chapter Two
Figure 2.154. Figure 2.155. Figure 2.156.
(top left) Plate XXXVIII. The cross, batten in the cross. (bottom left) Plate XXX. Door post.
(right) Plate XXXIII. Cabin door.
(86 II 12) The support knee comes underneath the lower spur of the head , for the shape and security it is made about 4 inches hollow forward, between the feet of the lion and the water.
This is the pen [not clear; probably simply “the sup- port”] in which the lion lies.
(87 I 24 ) The upper head rail mak es the shape of the beakhead; coming from the can t top timbers at one end, up to the es, w here it is nailed underneath the scroll.
The others are faired according to the upper rail , and their one end is well nail ed to the es, the other to the ship; a man’s head is carved on the upper head rail for decoration.
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(70 II 47) 5. the head rail aft broad 1⁄2. 6. Forward 1⁄4 of the stem.
7. And half as thick as its breadth. . ..
(87 I 44 ) The cheek knees are well fastened to the spur of the head, and the rails securely nailed to it.
Against the knees, on large ships, often open heads [toilets] are made.
The beakhead and bowspri t are bound together with ropes through the spur of the head.
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(264 I 26) About the dimensions of the Beakhead, which is made to the bow of ships, there is no other
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(70 II 40) [. . .] about the kam, aft, as man broad as the knee of the head is long.
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y inches
(86 II 18) The kam is the plank that is car ved, stands betweenbothcheekkneesofthehead ,andismade broad or narrow, as the lling strake between the two lower wales is broad or narrow: it is at its narrowest at the fore end. With its rear part the lion comes against the kam.
(54 II 33)
(55 I 36)
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Cheeks are knees outside, to stem and wale. . ..
Es: is the wood, lying on the lion’s back. . ..
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