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One rail was affixed on the outside and one on the inside, holes drilled thru each rib and the rails were affixed with brass rust proof bolts, with nuts on the inside flush.
Also I installed a teak sail-board holder, glued and screwed into ;the rear boat's front, two pieces of teak separated, blocked about
five-eights of an inch apart - twelve inches high and eight inches long where a retractable keel could be inserted while out on the water for sailing. I later made a fifteen foot mast from three by three fir, but never used it and never sailed the boat. Hardly used it at all actually.
I made four removable oak seat frames which inserted into struts I installed on the in-sides, about six inches below the rails affixed to two ribs each. I never finished the seats using a twelve inch square of plywood with holes for rope around and roped it in. There was a seat toward the front from which one could row, and one at the rear of the front boat facing forward. Another right behind it over the center board facing back, and of which one could row, and one in the rear very narrow. The boat was somewhat like a canoe but wide in the center maybe four feet so it was quite stable unlike a canoe.
Brass oarlock brackets I affixed to oak extenders about six inches from from the
rails, block-braced with curved oak vertically.
I made the oars from redwood two by twos with plastic fins on the ends. The brass pins were not bolted thru the oar shaft but the oars I fitted with a leather sleeve and collar so the oars could be twisted, the fins vertical in the water for pull but twisted horizontal on the return push.
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