Word: fendered
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...teak. All the deck fittings are of polished bronze, including the deck plates fore and aft, chocks and cleats, heavy stemband, flagpole sockets, rudder cap and fittings. The steering wheel is of polished brass with mahogany handles. The boat is painted white above the water line to her fender rail, which is of heavy oak. About four inches below this rail a cove is cut the whole length of the boat, gilded and finished at either end with a carved scroll. The machinery equipment consists in a Seabury patent safety water tube boiler of about 100 horse power...
...fire. What was the need of a body? True I could not move; but, in such pleasant surroundings, I was well content to stay where I was. So, in fact, it was not until I thought of exercising the American prerogative, and putting my feet on the fender, that I found out my corporeal insufficiency. As I say, I was perfectly contented. Although I knew that if I should in any way get nearer the fire, I should probably be drawn by the draught up the chimney, I was more struck with the humor of the situation than with...