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 Rh the opening an inch or two wider than the other end, and then when the shutters are put in, by working them large and driving them in end foremost, it may be sufficiently tight without any caulking.

"The lee board is made as follows: It is to be made of two thicknesses of plank, laid together crossing each other enough to make it sufficiently strong, and thick enough to play through the aforesaid mortise and haul up into the said sheath whenever necessary, and wide enough to fill up said sheath from near the bottom of the keel to the beam that passes across the top of the said sheath, and the length agreeable to the length of the said sheath, with the after end swept off on a true sweep from the bolt hole that it hangs on; said bolt hole to hang it by, is to be four-fifths from the after end and near enough to the bottom for a true sweep that strikes, the forward end to strike the bottom and worked off to the same; it is to be hung on a bolt sufficiently strong, passing through one pair of the aforesaid knees, with a head on one side and a forelock on the other, high enough to fetch the bottom within the keel with a clasp and thimble riveted on the upper side of the after end for the purpose of a lanyard or tackle to be made fast to hoist it into the sheath and when necessary the top of the sheath, the after part to pass through the deck with a check fitted at the after end of the frame, with a sheave in it for the lanyard to pass through for the purpose of hoisting it up, and to make the said sheath sufficiently strong there must