Her lines were supposed to be those of a North Sea fisherman.

In rebuilding timber by timber and plank by plank, I added to her free-board twelve inches amidships, eighteen inches forward, and fourteen inches aft, thereby increasing her sheer, and making her, as I thought, a better deep-water ship.

I will not repeat the history of the rebuilding of the _Spray_, which I have detailed in my first chapter, except to say that, when finished, her dimensions were thirty-six feet nine inches over all, fourteen feet two inches wide, and four feet two inches deep in the hold, her tonnage being nine tons net, and twelve and seventy one-hundredths tons gross.
I gladly produce the lines of the _Spray_, with such hints as my really limited fore-and-aft sailing will allow, my seafaring life having been spent mostly in barks and ships.

No pains have been spared to give them accurately.

The _Spray_ was taken from New York to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and, under the supervision of the Park City Yacht Club, was hauled out of water and very carefully measured in every way to secure a satisfactory result.