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Pa′per boat.

Paper boats or “shells” have of late years largely supplanted those of wood for racing and sporting purposes. These are made by applying sheets of manilla paper, or paper prepared from pure unbleached linen stock, to the exterior of a model or former corresponding to the interior lines of the shell. The sheets are fully equal in length to the model; and if manilla be employed, the first sheet is damped, applied smoothly to the surface of the model, and secured by tacking to strips on its upper face; it is then coated with an adhesive varnish, another sheet is applied over the first, and so on successively until the required thickness is attained.

When linen paper is used, but a single thickness of 1/20 to 3/8 of an inch is employed. The model with its envelope is then removed to a drying-room and exposed to a heat of 150° Fah., which obliterates all wrinkles in the paper and hardens it; it is next covered with boiled linseed-oil and turpentine, and afterward with shellac varnish; the framing is then inserted, and the decking and metal work put in place. Such boats may be made about one third lighter than wooden boats of the same dimensions, are impervious to water, and the skin is not liable to spring. See boat; canoe.

1877.

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