with Gun (5#> Rod in Canada 



years, it will perhaps give him confidence in the informa- 

 tion contained herein, and make him feel that the 

 suggestions do not arise from cranky ideas nor trifling 

 notions. 



The boat is so arranged and rigged that she cannot 

 sink; her engine cannot get wet; in case of a breakdown 

 she can be rowed, sculled, or sailed; her cushions are all 

 life-preservers ; she can carry enough water and pro- 

 visions for four men for three weeks; she has a cruising 

 radius of i6o miles; carries marine compass, charts in 

 a water-tight chart-box, power bilge-pump, 75 fathoms 

 of anchor rope, and an anchor strong enough to hold 

 her in any sea. She has a tiller as well as a wheel, 

 centreboard, fog-horn, and weed-hook; the engine is a 

 one-lunger, with dry battery, and high-tension magneto 

 system of ignition; her batteries are contained in a 

 water-tight box tucked up under the rail inside the 

 engine-room, above all possibility of getting wet. 



Ignition System is Waterproof. 



The high-tension kw. magneto is chain-driven from 

 the shaft, and sits upon a thwart in a water-tight box 

 with a hinge cover, just aft of the engine-house ; the 

 wires are all properly insulated and kept well up off 

 the bottom of the boat; the pan under the fly-wheel 

 is raised half an inch above the floorboards, so that water 

 running on the floor cannot run into the pan and be 

 thrown around by the fly-wheel, with a chance of wetting 

 the ignition; it is impossible for the strainer on the 

 bilge-pump suction to become clogged owing to the 

 very large surface of this strainer; the muffler and exhaust 

 pipe are large enough in diameter so that part of the 

 circulating water can be diverted for condensing exhaust 

 gases, ; and they are properly insulated with asbestos 



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