CHAPTER III. THE PREPARATION OF SPECIFICATIONS. Too much care cannot be expended in the drafting of the bull specification. Clearness and conciseness should be aimed at consistent with an embodiment of all details of hull, fittings, and outfits supposed to be supplied, and all repetition or ambiguity of phraseology carefully avoided. Hampering restrictions should be left out. Know your requirements and state them distinctly. As in all other ship construction work, it will pay to have a definite routine or system in which to draft the specification. Of course, it is obviously impossible to have a standard specification which shall apply to all ships, as vessels are so diverse in their types, design, construction, and equipment as to make this an impossibility. But by keeping a routine list of headings of paragraphs before one, and taking these in rotation when drafting the clauses, the liability to omit important requirements is reduced to a minimum, besides the saving in time and distraction of thoughts through having to recollect what comes next. For this purpose the following headings have been selected which will apply to ordinary vessels. Of course, for special types these will require modifications and additions which will suggest themselves. sanitary quarters. 77. Engine room and docking telegraphs. 77a. Steering gear. 78. Anchors, chains, and line outfit. 79. Boats and outfits. 80. Flags, etc. 81. Hose, fire and wash deck, also fire buckets. 82. Oil tanks, for lamps, etc. 83. Steaming lights. 84. Lamps and lanterns, also rockets, etc. 85. Navigating instruments. 86. Boatswain's stores. 87. Carpenter's stores. 88. Cargo handling gear, slings, hooks, etc. 89. Cook's or galley outfit. 90. Cabin outfit. 91. Cutlery outfit. 92. Crockery and glass. 93. Table linen. 94. Bed linen and bedding. 95. Spare glasses for side-lights in passenger ships. 96. Galvanizing. Lamps for saloon and officers' rooms in small ships. One biscuit forcer. Lamp scissors. Oil funnels. Lamp wicks. Rockets, signal cannon, to be supplied as required by U. S. laws, together with owner's night signals, etc. Navigating Instruments. Standard compass and stand. Ten inch spirit compasses in navigating positions. One spare card. Boat's compasses, 4" card. Sounding machine, or deep sea lead (28 lbs.), line and reel. 130 fathoms. One apple corer. One galvanized bucket. One buckwheat jug. One hundred and twenty corn bread tins. One dough knife. One casserole mould. |