628 SPOKTING BOATS AND CANOES. 



is cut longer to enable a block to be set in forward and aft of the 

 mast, as may be desired, for going on or off the wind, and you 

 have your sail reduced without any naked spars to hold the wind 

 and list the boat without being of any service. To drive her, if the 

 wind increases, you next take in your jib and go under your fore- 

 sail ; if the gale increases, and it must be a gale indeed to render 

 it necessary, take in your foresail and substitute your mainsail 

 for it, which is quickly done, as the after part of the upper step of 

 the foremast is in a hinge, and the lower one on z. pivot, so that 

 the mast can be lowered fore and aft without taking it out of the 

 step. Now you have your boat under sail that you can go with, 

 when large " pungies " have to make a harbor, and the boat steers 

 well under any or all of the above sails, owing to changing the 

 rake of her masts, and holds on well. These boats are in uni- 

 versal use on the Chesapeake from the capes to the head of the bay. 



Yarmouth Fishing Canoe. — To a gunwale of desiied length 

 and strength, attach ribs of pine, about two inches wide by an 

 eighth thick, bent in the form desired. Longitudinal strips of the 

 same are then tacked as closely as possible to the ribs outside, and 

 over all, a covering of canvas is tightly stretched. A keel of pine 

 an inch wide and one-half inch thick (tapering at the sides) is then . 

 screwed on, and whole outside coated with shellac varnish, in 

 which a little boiled linseed oil has been mixed. This makes a 

 perfectly waterproof canoe capable of standing hard knocks. Such 

 a one, fourteen feet long, will weigh about fifty pounds. Address 

 W. A. Lawson, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. 



The Rob Roy.^Ditfiensions. Length, fourteen feet ; beam, 

 twenty-six inches ; depth, eight and a half inches ; rise of deck, 

 two inches ; bulkheads, three feet from each end ; cock-pit, three 

 feet four inches by eighteen inches ; combing, two inches high ; 

 mast, one and three-quarter inches in diameter at deck ; siding and 

 decks, one-quarter inch thick ; ribbed between bulkheads — ribs, 

 one and a half inches apart. 



Material. Keel and stems, oak ; ribs, elm ; sidings, decks, 

 deck-timbers, back-board, stretcher and combing, cedar ; gun- 

 wales, mast and spars, spruce ; paddle, spruce or ash. 



Weight Complete. (This one) fifty-six pounds ; might be built 

 down to fifty pounds safely. Price, from seventy-five to one 



