626 SPORTING BOATS AND CANOES. 



a seam. Next paint bow and stern, also along the keelson. While 

 the paint is yet fresh put on false bows of sheet iron and an inch 

 pine keel, which latter is bolted through the skin to the keelson. 

 Nex^he deck is put on, of lighter canvas, and then a coat of 

 boilea linseed oil is given. Over the oil apply paint, and finally 

 varnish. The dimensions are, length, fourteen feet, beam twenty- 

 six inches, depth amidships, from ridge of deck to bottom of one 

 inch keel, one foot. She is decked over at bow and stern, with a 

 well amidships four feet long by twenty inches wide, surrounded 

 by an inch combing. Over the well is fitted a white rubber apron, 

 which buttons tight around the paddles, and effectually keeps all 

 spray and rain from getting below. Her means of propulsion are 

 a double bladed paddle and sails. The sails are a standing lug 

 main and a jib foresail. The mast is four feet six inches above 

 deck, but the peak of mainsail when hoisted is over six feet. The 

 sails are so arranged that they may be set or taken in without the 

 canoeist leaving his seat. The painter is rove through a brass eye 

 at bow and stern, and runs entirely around the canoe, being used 

 as jib outhaul, and to keep the apron close to the deck in a sea. 

 The " Qui Vive," complete with mast, sails, apron, seatback, pad- 

 dle, stretcher, flag and flagstaff, weighs fifty pounds. The seat- 

 back is " Rob Roy " style, two strips of wood to rest along the back 

 without touching the spine, and is hinged to the after combings. 



With the paddle and a rubber sheet a water tight cabin can be 

 rigged at night, and there is ample space below deck to allow the 

 knees of the sleeper to pass, so that he may turn over, which is 

 necessary for a comfortable sleep. The sailing qualities of these 

 canoes are astonishing, they will beat to windward, and require 

 very little steering. The paddle is straight bladed, seven feet six 

 inches long, and weighs two and a half pounds, it is used in steer- 

 ing when under sail. 



The cost complete is only fifty dollars. 



The Chaloiipe. — This is the principal fishing craft of the St. 

 Lawrence, an eight-ton lighter-built craft of three feet draught, 

 one-masted sloop, rigged, with jigger sail astern, and stub bowsprit. 

 Amidships is a hold for ballast and cargo, forward a diminutive 

 cabin with berths, a seat and a table, and astern a clear space for 

 handling sheets and helm. A seaworthy craft. 



