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back of the roof and one large 

 grommet in the middle of the 

 front of the roof. 



The regular pitch is made by 

 setting the canoe up on edge, bot- 

 tom to windward, propping it by 

 a couple of forked sticks. A long 

 "Silver Lake" cord is tied to one 

 of the corner grommets in the 



The front guy cords are next 

 passed out to convenient trees or 

 else over forked sticks and then 

 pegged down. Rocks or logs hold 

 the sides to the ground (there is 

 plenty of slack for these), and the 

 tent is pitched. Takes a little 

 longer to do than to tell. The big 

 grommet in the center of the front 



roof, run around over the bottom 

 of the canoe, passed through a 

 thwart and then run back up over 

 the bottom of the canoe and 

 through the center grommet. 

 From here it is run back down 

 over the bottom of the canoe, 

 passed through the other thwart 

 and back up to the grommet in 

 the other corner of the roof, 

 where it is made fast. From the 

 rear the cord looks like a capital 

 "W" run over the bottom of the 

 canoe. The tent laps enough over 

 the top edge of the canoe to shed 

 water. 



edge is for an extra post if it is 

 raining, as the roof sheds water 

 better that way. This gives a 

 roomy shelter, five by seven feet, 

 and plenty high enough to crawl 

 into, with the extra space of the 

 canoe back of it to protect duffle. 



A HOME-MADE ROD TIP 



BY DEAN O. SMITH 



Some time ago I broke the tip 

 of my bamboo casting rod and, 

 since the rod was an inexpensive 

 one and I did not wish to pur- 

 chase a new tip joint, I made a 



