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The Gunning Skiff. — Built by Sam. T. Quitman, South Oyster 

 Bay, Long Island, New York. This is a serviceable and seaworthy 

 craft, and is considered an improvement on the Bamegat boat. 



Dimensions : eleven feet keel, twelve feet nine inches over all 

 on deck, four feet three inches beam, with a swinging centre-board, 

 which acts of its own accord when the boat is sailing in shallow 

 water. The boat is also supplied with a lug sail of ten yards of 

 canvas;' mast, ten feet; sprit, fourteen and one-half feet; sail 

 nearly square. She is decked over four feet forward and two feet 

 aft, washboard one foot wide. The combing is four inches high, 

 and arranged for thatching with grass. Depth, fifteen inches-from 

 top of combing. The sail is made so as a reef can be taken when 

 necessary. 



The Nautilus. — This canoe is of different lengths, with two 

 masts, built for sailing or paddling ; carries no centre-board, but a 

 two and one-half inch keel ; greatest beam twenty-eight inches ; 

 weight, fifty pounds. Price, one hundred dollars. William Byles, 

 Harlem, and J. Everson, Greenpoint, builders. 



The Pirogue or Dug-out is hollowed from a single log, or may 

 be shaped from several ; is in use from Maine to Florida and Min- 

 nesota, and is propelled by paddles, seldom carrying more than 

 two persons. 



Birch Canoes. — Of various patterns, sizes, and degrees of 

 merit, carrying from one to eight persons with their luggage. 

 Price varies from twelve dollars to twenty dollars in the Provinces. 

 The best are obtained in Nova Scotia. Good ones can be bought 

 at Old Town and Princeton, Maine. 



Ribless Boats. — Sail boats, for coast and river fishing, " built 

 up " witho.ut ribs, are very popular in Massachusetts Bay on account 

 of their speed, lightness, cheapness, and ease of construction. To 

 make one, the only material needed are good clear pine boards, 

 each the whole length of the intended boat, a few pounds of small 

 nails (galvanized,) and the material for the stem, keel, and stern 

 post. The boards are run through a saw mill and cut into strips 

 about an inch and a half wide, and out of these the boat is built up 

 according to working models. These models are merely patterns 

 of wood that give the outside of a half-section of the boat. They 

 give the shape of a boat at every foot of her length, and are formed 



