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How Ships Are Built in Holland Today
Figure 2.36.
Plate XXXIX. Transom
Figure 2.37 Plate XLIX
base for the fr ames in a f ar sharper hull. With the Dut ch
flat bottoms such a large knee was not needed.
15. Then the garboard stern rabbet is made, with the keel rabbet.
(148 II 50) On the Plate at PP [fig. 2.40] one can see the rabbet of the k eel in a and equally in b, and the way the planks are set in there.
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(66 I 10) The rabbet, thick, broad and deep, as the planks are thick, the planks 1⁄4 the thickness of the stem.
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At 1⁄4 from the inside of the stem, the planks are entered in the stem.
(74 I 10) 6. Of the Knee on the keel, at the sternpost.
1. The knee on the keel, at the sternpost, thick 1 foot
3 inches, broad 50 inches: the ends long 6 feet.
2. Through each end 4 bolts are hammered: in some
cases also knees are applied to the sternpost above. Through the scarf of the k eel 8 bolts, and through the scarf of the stem 4 bolts are clenched with small rivet plates: through k eel and sternpost 6 bolts, rst going through the knee w hich stands on it, and then through the scarf of the keel.
14. Make a Knee on the Keel, and against the Sternpost
Compared with British shipbuilding practice of the time, the knee was only a minor timber. In England a consider- able deadwood knee was fastened to the keel to form the
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