Small Boat Wrinkles 



mania, but I always seemed to get back to the small, 

 sturdy fisherman type of power boat when I wanted to 

 have a regular cruise or excitement in the big water, 

 either salt or fresh. 



The boat I am showing in the picture is the best all- 

 round power boat that I ever had. It is a little Seabright 

 lapstreak dory, 21 feet 6 inches over all, copper- fastened, 

 built at Long Branch, N.J., where, as they have no 

 harbours, they must land their fish through the surf 

 right on the beach. She is fitted with a 7 horse-power 

 Model T Gray two-cycle engine. The boat was shipped 

 to Toronto, where her deck and coamings were added; 

 her engine and other fittings were installed there, and 

 I used her for four years on Lake Ontario for cruising, 

 hunting, etc. Then I shipped her to Nova Scotia, 

 and she became a hunting launch at my camp on Lake 

 Rossignol. 



Her shallow draught and seaworthiness made her ideal 

 for this rough and rocky lake. Then she was taken to 

 salt water at Port Medway, and I used her the entire 

 season of 1918, cruising on the Nova Scotian coast. If 

 there is any rougher coast (or rougher sea) than the 

 North Atlantic off the north-eastern corner of this 

 continent, the salt-water sailors have not yet discovered 

 it. The dory is still perfectly sound, tight as a bottle, 

 and as I write this article early in May, is ready to go 

 overboard for another season of strenuous salt-water 

 work. 



SEVEN YEARS OF HARD SERVICE. 



If the reader will bear in mind that all the apparatus 

 and arrangement thereof in connection with this little 

 craft have been subjected to steady and consistent hard 

 work in both salt and fresh water for a period of seven 



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