634 SPORTING BOATS AND CANOES. 



when fifteen feet long. Can be packed in a box six feet by seven 

 inches, by four inches. The cover is made in a single piece o( 

 canvas, and can be folded and carried in a haversaclc over the 

 shoulder. The gunwales from being lined with steel, are but one- 

 half an inch thick. They are said to be strictly impervious to 

 water, and can be covered with a buttoned tarpaulin so as to keep 

 out rain and waves. Address William H. Rollins, Boston, Mass, 



The Colvin Canvas Boat. — This boat, or canoe, is usually 

 made twelve feet long by four feet wide. Only the canvas skin or 

 cover is carried ; it weighs ten pounds eight ounces (leaving out 

 the light leathern pieces which receive the comers of keelson and 

 gunwales), and when compactly folded, occupies the space of less 

 than half a cubic foot. It has carried in a heavy storm, far from 

 land, a burden of seven hundred pounds, and will, in smooth 

 water, convey a much greater burden. The prows are guarded 

 with brass cut-waters, riveted on. The keelson and gunwales are 

 improvised from stout poles cut in the wood, when required, and 

 two dozen stout boughs form the ribs. The skin is made fast to 

 the gfunwale by leathern thongs or points. It is in reality a make- 

 shift, to use in places so inaccessible that it will not pay to cany 

 an ordinary portable boat. Made by R. C. Scott, Albany. 



The Adirondack Boat. — This is a round bottom, lap streak 

 cedar boat, fourteen to eighteen feet in length, accommodating 

 two or three persons with their camp outfit. They are stiff and 

 safe. C. J. Chase, Newcomb, Essex Co., New York, Reuben 

 Cary and Henry Stanton, of Long Lake, W. E. Martin, E. Peck, 

 and G. Philboots, of Saranac Lake, are all good builders. Cary's 

 and Stanton's models differ from Chase's in being higher in the 

 stem and somewhat squarer, while his are not so sheer and alike 

 at both ends. There is, perhaps, a little more style to the Long 

 Lake boats, while Chase's are somewhat stifier. 



Bond's Sectional Boat. — This is made with iron sides and 

 wooden bottom, with an air chamber amidships. It is con- 

 structed in two sections of eight feet each, which can be unjointed, 

 and one-half of the boat set in the other. It is flat-bottomed and 

 can run in shoal water, and being of iron is less vulnerable to 

 snags and rocks than other boats. Built at Cleveland, Ohio, by 

 Thomas E. Bond ; price $60. 



