There are three deck braces made as shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8.  Braces, Figs. 6 and 7, form the ends of the cockpit which is 20 in. wide.  A 6-in. board is fitted into the mortises shown in these pieces; a center piece is fitted in the other mortises.  The other deck braces slope down from the center piece and are placed 6 in. apart.  They are 1 in. square and are mortised into the center piece and fastened to the gunwales with screws.  The main deck braces are fastened to the gunwales with 4-in. corner braces and to the center piece with 2-in. corner braces.  The mast hole on the deck is made as follows:  Secure a piece of pine 1 in. thick, 6 in. wide and 3 ft. long.  Cut this in halves and mortise for the center piece in the two halves and fasten to the gunwales.  A block of pine, 4 in. thick and 12 in. long, is cut to fit under the top boards, Fig. 9, and fastened to them with bolts.  With an expansive bit bore a hole 3 in. in diameter through the block.  Be sure to get the block and hole directly over the block that is fastened to the keelson.  Put on a coat of boiled linseed oil all over the frame before proceeding farther.

Putting on the canvas may be a difficult piece of work to do, yet if the following simple directions are followed out no trouble will be encountered.  The 11-yd. length of canvas is cut in the center, doubled, and a seam made joining the two pieces together.  Fill the seam with thick paint and tack it down with copper tacks along the center of the keelson.  When this is well tacked commence stretching and pulling the canvas in the middle of the gunwales so as to make it as even and tight as possible and work toward each end, tacking the canvas as it is stretched to the outside of the gunwale.  Seam the canvas along the stern and bow pieces as was done on the keelson.  The deck is not so hard to do, but be careful to get the canvas tight and even.  A seam should be made along the center piece.  The trimming is wood, 1/4 in. thick and 1/2 in. wide.  A strip of this is nailed along the center piece over the canvas.  The outwales are nailed on over the canvas.  A piece of oak, 1 in. thick 1-1/2 in. wide and 14 in. long, is fastened with screws over the canvas on the stern piece; also, a piece 1/4 in. thick, 1 in. wide and 24 in. long is well soaked in water, bent to the right shape and fastened over the canvas on the bow.

The rudder is made as shown in Fig. 10 with a movable handle.  A strip 1 in. thick by 2 in. wide, is bolted to the keelson over the canvas for the outer keel.  The keel, Fig. 11, is 6 in. wide at one end and 12 in. at the other, which is fastened to the outer keel with bolts having thumb nuts.  The mast can be made of a young spruce tree having a diameter of 3 in. at the base with sufficient height to make it 9 ft. long.  The canoe is driven by a lanteen sail and two curtain poles, each 1 in. in diameter and 10 ft. long, are used for the boom and gaff, which are held together with two pieces of iron bent as