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Chapter Two
(71 I 1) 29. About the Stern Gallery.
1. The Lower hackebord, in the middle is as broad as the stem and 1⁄8 its thickness.
2. The cover on top of it, as broad, as the hackebord.
4. The other hackebord, and cover, has less curve, and with the counter timbers, and other carvings, the stern gallery is decorated.
(83 I 10) 47. About the Stern Gallery.
1. The upper side, of the lower hack ebord, comes 12
inches above the upper side of the second wale, at the ends broad 1 foot, in the middle broad 13 inches, thick 4 inches, the underside has a cur ve of 5 inches, and above as much more as it is broader in the middle.
2. It stands 2 feet 2 inches aft of the sternpost, half joined into the lling strakes, they are made with little turrets or without, but more often without.
2. About the cover thereon.
1.TheCoverthick2inches, inthemiddlebroad13
inches, at the ends broad 1 foot 1⁄2 inch.
2. At the ends 7 inches longer, than the hackebord.
3. About the footing or base of the quarter gallery. 1. The Foot in the side, long 5 feet 6 inches. 2. Aft broad 7 inches.
3. Forward broad 5 inches.
4. Thick 2 inches.
5. Corresponds with the narrowness of the wale.
(57 II 1 3) The rst cover, shown on plate N o. 20
[fig. 2.168] is thick 2 inches, in the middle at c broad
1 foot 2 inches, at the ends a 1 foot 1 1⁄2 inches, goes 7 inches past the lling, the foot in the side long 5 feet 51⁄2 inches,broad7inches, thick2inches,ithassome curve downward, and the underside stands, as far out- sidethewale,thelittlepostat theendbroad6inches; lies on the second hackebord; is that on which one leans looking aft, thick 5 inches, stan ds 1 foot from the wale, at the height of 1 foot 4 inches, from the foot, and has somecurvatureinbetween,31⁄2 inchesbelowthefoot, the quarter gallery architraves are broad 9 inches, the upper side high 2 feet 2 inches, aft broad 1 foot, thick 1⁄2 inches, curve above 2 inches, and aft 11⁄2 feet outside the wale on the inside. The arch comes 81⁄2 inches before the post, the post heels 51⁄2 inches backward, the arch comes 11⁄2 inches on the wale.
From the errata section, page 40, of Witsen’s ap- pendix: The Cover thick in the middle at C [in fig. 2.168]: 2 inches, broad 13 inches at the ends at A.
Figure 2.167. beam 27 feet.
Plate XXXII. Stern, Witsen’s crest; depth 16 feet,
The stern consisted of a number of components: 1, first hackebord; 2, first cover; 3, second hackebord; 4, second cover; 5, quarter consoles; 6, third cover; 7, upper hackebord; 8, cornices (vaezen); 9, “statues in the side.”
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