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pulsion. About the cockpit is a folding canvas comb- 

 ing, which can be raised in case of a sea. The boat 

 sits low in the water. It is stiff, easy-going and suit- 

 able for its purpose, which includes a long journey 

 daily to and from the club house, partly in open water. 

 The birch canoe folded and closed at the ends and 

 provided with cockpit and combing, a sort of kayak 

 model indeed, may have been in the mind of Mr. Alex. 

 T. Loyd, of the Grand Calumet Heights, of Chicago, 

 when he devised the racy lines of what we may call the 

 Loyd boat. 



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LOYD BOAT. 



This is a slender and graceful craft, about 18 feet in 

 length. It is provided with out-riggers and is very 

 speedy under oars, being really a better river runner 

 than marsh boat. Under sail it is very fast and stiff, 

 being provided with a keel which is detachable at will. 

 At night the captain of the boat usually employs the 

 keel as the ridge pole of his boat tent, simply reversing 

 the position of the rods which fasten it in position. 

 The owner of this boat has two or three airtight cases 

 stowed fore and aft under the decking, and these would 

 float the boat strongly if it were overturned, which, 

 however, it has not yet been. This boat was born of a 



