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in awhile. Spent some of the night reading while watching. finally day break broke and the sky was clear.
[[underlined]] Jan 12 [[/underlined]] (Sunday) Pretty soon [[red underlined]] sun made things look brighter [[/red underlined]] Then about 9A.M the men arrived with the boat and proceeded to work
About noon time weather gloriously beautiful!
The boat was [[red underlined]] tilted on starboard [[red underlined]] They remove the [[red underlined]] center props under [[red underlined]] keel.
[[red underlined]] Slid the skid sideways [[/red underlined]] from Port Side under tilted boat Then slid under the skid two parallel runners 4"x6" on which they intend to run the rollers. Then runners were nailed together at their extremities by means of two laths so as to ensure their parallelism
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The skid had the center stringer ^[[A]] wider so as to allow for greater beam of boat at the middle. [[image: drawing of how the skids are laid out like railroad ties with center stringer labeled A]] At the extremities they put [[image: drawing of 2 squared U pieces, one on bottom and another inverted on top. Each has vertical 2 dots in each leg]] [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] 2" pieces shaped as [[image: drawing of a squared U-shaped piece with 2 dots in each leg]] so that nailed face to face they just make a countersink square hole to put the upright braces. They greased the extremities of the rollers with Albany grease The [[red underlined]] rollers [[/red underlined]] were made from [[red underlined]] cinnamon bark trees. [[/red underlined]] The middle was left rough with bark on; but the extremities were carefully barked and rounded by means of axe and knife so as to make them smooth rolling [[image: drawing of how the logs are smooth at the ends and rough in the middle, with the middle labeled rough]] this enabled them to use to advantage trunks of trees which are not entirely straight Pine