The bulwarks I built up of white-oak stanchions fourteen inches high, and covered with seven-eighth-inch white pine.

These stanchions, mortised through a two-inch covering-board, I calked with thin cedar wedges.

They have remained perfectly tight ever since.

The deck I made of one-and-a-half-inch by three-inch white pine spiked to beams, six by six inches, of yellow or Georgia pine, placed three feet apart.

The deck-inclosures were one over the aperture of the main hatch, six feet by six, for a cooking-galley, and a trunk farther aft, about ten feet by twelve, for a cabin.