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Updated: May 29, 2025
Wardrop decreed that the noble patchwork would never support working engines; at the best, it could only hold the guide-bars approximately true. The deadweight of the cylinders must be borne by vertical struts; and, therefore, a gang would repair to the bows, and take out, with files, the big bow-anchor davits, each of which was some three inches in diameter.
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The wheel being lashed with the rudder amidships, all the steering was managed from the bows any deviation from the straight line westward being corrected by my taking the saw out from the guide-bars and cutting to the right or to the left with it until I had the boat's nose pointing again the right way. But there was not often need for cutting of this sort.
Held by the guide-bars, the saw cut a straight path for the boat to follow; while, conversely, the boat held the saw true. And so, for the most part, I had only to stand like a machine there endlessly hauling the saw up and endlessly thrusting it down.
Wardrop decreed that the noble patchwork would never support working engines; at the best, it could only hold the guide-bars approximately true, he deadweight of the cylinders must be borne by vertical struts; and, therefore, a gang would repair to the bows, and take out, with files, the big bow-anchor davits, each of which was some three inches in diameter.
But that was a piece of foresight that came afterward, and so did me no good. When my guide-bars were in place, and the saw made ready to slip into them by taking off one of its handles and I had still a spare saw to fall back upon in the event of the first one breaking my boat was ready to go overboard into the open water, where she would lie while I put aboard of her my coal and stores.
This was to rig on the straight stem of my boat a set of guide-bars projecting forward in which I could work perpendicularly a cross-cut saw, and in that way to cut a slit in the weed which would be widened by the boat's nose thrusting into it as the screw shoved her onward, and so would enable me to squeeze along.
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