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Show SonETfflNd LittixOnes EASY TO MAKE BARREL BOAT Timbers Attached Prevent Capsizing and May Be Constructed by Any Handy Boy. A boat that any handy hoy enn easily innko ts constructed of n barrel bar-rel which Is kept with tho opening cut In ono sldo up by two 4 by C-ln, timbers and two tie pieces, 2 by 4, snys tho Popular Mechanics, Tho lengths of theso pieces will depend on tho slzo of tho bnrrel. A good watertight barrol should bo solccted nnd an opening cut In tho center between tho hoops, of such a size as to allow tho body of tho occupant oc-cupant room for handling nn oar. Tho timbers aro attached to tho barrel with Iron straps pieces of old hoops A Barret Boat. will do, Tho two tlo pieces are put across tho timbers nt tho ends of tho barrel and spiked In placo. Tho boat Is to bo propelled with a slnglo, double-cud pnddlo. Thero Is no danger of tho boat capsizing or tho wutcr splashing Into tho barrel. |