Wooden Shipbuilding (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wooden Shipbuilding Boom Beams are timbers spanning a vessel from side to side, the ends being firmly attached thereto by hanging and lodging knees, thus connecting the two sides of the ship. The siding and molding are usually regulated by the length of the midship beams. In a vessel about twenty feet broad they are usually eight to ten inches, in one of double that breadth, from twelve to fifteen inches square. The molding near the ends is generally a. Tri¿e less than at the middle line. The spacing of deck beams is from four feet to four feet six inches. Hold beams are usually heavier than deck beams, and spaced farther apart. The molding of a beam is its depth. The siding of a beam its breadth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.