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How Ships Are Built in Holland Today
Figure 2.50. (top left) The same phenomenon of crossed lines can be seen in Chapman’s illustration of an eighteenth- century Dutch “fly-boat.” From Chapman, Architectura Navalis Mercatoria (1777), plate LII. (Drawing by A. J. Hoving)
Figure 2.51. (top right) Drawing of frames of a fluyt. From Rålamb, Skep byggerij, plate G.
Figure 2.53. (right) Plate XXVII. Bilge futtock. Figure 2.52. (center) Plate XXVII. Floor timber.
This marks the end of the shell-first phase of construc- tion. As we shall see, the rest of the ship was built accord- ing to the frame-first method.
21. And make it quite even in height, when it is shored.
(67 I 25) On the plate No. 20 [fig. 2.56] a is at the wa- tershed level, and at b are the bilges or the top of the planking of the bilges, through w hich the futtock
projects outward, or hangs over the Nail, c is the bilge strake, and the outside of the bottom, with the begin- ning of the turn of the bilge, d is the keel.
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(60 II 53) The chine is the lowest or last strak e of the bottom, meaning at the outside of the ship.
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