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mere increase of value in the fisheries of the 

 single province of British Columbia, within a 

 single year, has exceeded the value of the total 

 catch marketed in several of the smaller states 

 of Europe and America. 



The two principal salt-water craft that have 

 a history behind them and a sphere of active 

 usefulness to-day are the schooner and its 

 tender, the little dory. A schooner is a fore- 

 and-aft-rigged vessel with at least two masts 

 and four sails — mainsail, foresail, jib, and the 

 staysail generally called a wind-bag. The 

 schooner rig makes the handiest all-round 

 vessel known. It can be managed by fewer 

 hands in proportion to its tonnage than any 

 other, and its sails do the greatest amount of 

 work under the most varied conditions. Other 

 rigs may beat it on special points ; but the 

 general sum of all the sailing virtues is decidedly 

 its own. It takes you more nearly into a head 

 wind than most others, and scuds before a 

 lubber's wind dead aft with a maximum of 

 canvas spread out ' wing-and-wing ' — one big 

 sail to port and the other out to starboard. 



The dory is a two-man rowboat which 

 possesses as many of the different, and some- 

 times contradictory, good points of the canoe, 

 skiff, punt, and lifeboat as it is possible to 



