THE MOTOR-CANOE SWAMPED 



The dory is a very practicable and amazingly 

 sea-worthy boat, but it has a sharp stern and the 

 stern-post slants inward toward the middle of the 

 boat. Furthermore, the freeboard is so high that 

 the screw of our motor would be largely out of 

 the water. It would be difficult to find a type of 

 boat which offered greater difficulties for attach- 

 ment of the outboard motor. But these were very 

 cleverly solved by Gould. The stern of the dory 

 was cut back a distance of about a foot extending 

 downward from the gunwale about ten inches. He 

 then made a new water-tight stern and a deck run- 

 ning out from its base to the rudder-post. On the 

 outer edge of this deck a cleat was erected for the 

 clamp of the motor. The dory thus modified never 

 gave us trouble during the three seasons and was 

 indispensable to us. 



We had also taken with us two Chestnut canoes 

 made at Fredericton, New Brunswick, one of 

 them the prospector's model and the other with a 

 square stern to be used with outboard-motor. 

 When used with the motor this canoe is of course 

 a high speed boat and even when weighted down in 

 the bow is hardly safe except in quiet waters. 



The Greenland fjords are very treacherous for 

 boat navigation. Gusty winds sweep down upon 

 them and these have often a limited distribution, 



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