The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.
Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.
A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
This tube must be long enough to reach from the sternpost to three and a half inches beyond the top of the stem.
In these the steam from the boiler is conducted through a short pipe to the sternpost of the boat, where by its pressure on the water in escaping it forces the boat along.
Now you must bore a hole in the sternpost right through into the boat, in the direction of the top of the stem.
When the boat is finished paint it, and when dry put it into water, and mark on the sternpost the height the water comes.
Push the end, without the tin strip, through the hole in the sternpost from the inside of the boat, so that the tube is flush with the wood, and fasten the other end by driving tacks through the holes in the tin strip into the boat.
Defn: A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
Defn: The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.
Defn: One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure; -- called also transsummer.
The gunwales are fastened to the sternpost in the same way as to the stem, in both cases resting on the upper surface of the block so as to form a low rail, but project only 5 or 6 inches.
These are spread apart amidships, but bent together fore and aft so as to be scarfed into the stem and sternpost (see diagram, Fig.
We reached the great sternpost of the lost Terpsichore at 9.
Her sternpost has very little rake in it; in fact, excessive rake ofsternpost was a rarity during the seventies, and her keel was only slightly rockered.
Built for length on deck, there was no necessity for shortening up the water-line, and her sternpost had no very great rake.
The first yacht built with a knuckle in her sternpost came from Messrs.
Unfortunately her dimensions cannot be correctly stated, but she was about 32 feet between stem and sternpost on deck, some 6 ft.
The after-body is generally whale-shaped, with the sternpost at a somewhat less angle than the stem.
Her frames were of bent elm, the sternpost and knees of tea-tree, while her keel was of tallow-wood.
But for all that I heard what was like a half laugh come from Bertric, and he went quickly aft to the sternpost and rested his hand on it for a moment, still watching the ship.
But though Gerda's face was pale, and her eyes wide with the terror of the wreck, she never screamed or let go her hold of the sternpost to which she had been clinging.
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