With Gun & 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 160 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 



