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into her would be a costly bit of work, only to be undertaken by a skilled boat-builder. But any boy who has even a very small experience of the use of carpenter's tools can construct a lee-board and fit it to his boat. The author once placed lee-boards on an old P. and O. lifeboat, and sailed with her from Hammersmith to Copenhagen and back, cruising round the Zuider Zee, coasting up the Frisian islands, winding in and out among the many pleasant fiords, straits, and islands of the Baltic. With her varnished teak sides and oaken lee-boards she looked very well, and her sailing powers were as excellent as her appearance. She was double-ended—that is, her stern was pointed like her bow; she was ketch-rigged; and, drawing little over two feet with her lee-boards up, she could put into all sorts of interesting little creeks and rivers closed to bigger craft. Fig. 41 will give some idea of her appearance and of the shape