Oct. 16, 1890.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



2-6.1 



BODY PLAN OF " CANUCK.' 1 



most cases giviDg the full offsets for building to 16ft. as well as 15 

 The canoes of to-day, however, are all of one length, 16ft., and it 

 is highly improbable that this length will be departed from as 

 there is no reason for building a racing canoe shorter than the 

 rule, and no prospect of the rule being changed to admit a longer 

 canoe. Such being the case we have made the accompanying 

 drawings of the actual length of the boat, 16ft. The Dreadth 

 shown in the drawings, 30in., is a little greater than the actual 

 width, the canoe measuring at midships 29%m. The sail plan and 

 details of seat and rudder will appear shortly. 



TABLE OF OFFSETS. 



1 



eck 

 ights 



Half-Bheadths. 



Sta 



m 



Deck 



lOin. 



Sin. 



6in. 



4in. 



2in. 



Dia.l 



Dia.2 



Dia.3 



0.. 



1 4" 





0i 





0i 

















It. 



1 33 





4 1 





3 2 







2 1 



1* 



0 7 





4 





3" 



2' 



2.. 



1 2* 









6 3 



5 6 





4 4 





16 





7 3 





5 7 



3 8 



3.. 



I V 





10 





9* 



8 s 





6' 



5! 



00 





101 





8i 



4 7 



4.. 



1 0" 



1 







11* 



10 6 





9" 



7 





1 



0' 





9 7 



i ¥t 





1 0" 



1 



l 2 



1 



0 6 



1 





10? 



8« 



6 



1 



l 3 





111 



6 3 



k - 



ll 7 



1 





1 



l 5 



1 li 



1 



0i 



10 



6 1 



1 



2 3 





ll 7 



6 7 





lie 



1 



2 5 



1 





1 17 



1 



0 7 



10 6 



6 s 



1 



3 1 



1 



0" 



7 





IV 



1 



3 



1 



96 



1 I 2 



1 



l 3 



ll 2 





1 



3* 



1 



0° 





9.. 



ll 2 



1 





1 



2 s 



1 2 2 



1 



l 2 



ll 2 



7 



1 



3" 



1 



0 6 





10.. 



11= 



1 



2 E 



1 



2 3 



1 l 7 



1 



0 8 



10* 



63 



1 



3 



1 



0 3 





11.. 



ll 3 



1 



1« 



1 



l 5 



1 l 1 





w 



9 5 





1 



2 2 





11« 



6« 



12.. 



ll 6 



1 



0* 



1 



0 3 



11" 





ll>! 



8 



45 



1 



1 





10» 



6 2 



13.. 



1 0* 





10' 





10 2 



9 3 





8 



a 7 



3 2 





11 





8 7 



5 3 



14.. 



1 1< 





81 







6< 







3< 



2 





8 2 





6 s 



4 



15.. 



1 2 6 





4 5 





3' 



3 2 





2 3 



1" 



0 7 





4 6 









16.. 



1 4 3 





0i 







0 1 





01 



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Qi 

























CANOE CANUCK— DIMENSIONS AND ELEMENTS. 



Ft. Tn. 



Length over all 16 00 



Beam, extreme 2 06 



l.w.l 2 00 7 



Draft, 0 05 2 



Least freeboard 0 06 2 



Sheer, bow 0 05 x 



stern 0 05 



Displacement, Sin. waterline, lbs 327 



Area— Midship section 0.54sq. ft. 



♦Lateral plane 6.62sq. ft. 



*Oenterboard 2.32sq. ft. 



*Rudder 0.75sq.ft. 



Total 9.69sq. ft. 



*C. L. R. from stem, without board 8 08 



with board 8 04 s 



f!. B. from stem 8 01 4 



Midship section from stem 8 00 



Fore side of stem to— 



Mainmast 1 02 s 



Fore bulkhead 6 01 4 



Fore end of well 6 04* 



Fore end of slot 6 03 2 



After end of slot 8 10 2 



Fore side of deck seat 9 05 



After end of well 10 06 



After bulkhead 10 08 2 



Pin of deck yoke 10 09 



Mizenmast 11 02 



THE PADDLING CHAMPIONSHIP. 



THE proposed race between Messrs. Mackendrick and Johnston 

 has come to an untimely and most unsatisfactory end, as the 

 following correspondence, from the Toronto Mail, shows: 

 Editor Mail: 



I do not like to again trouble you about the race which I have 

 tried to arrange with Mr. Johnston, but in justice to myself I will 

 answer his letter. Mr. Johnston says I have never met any fast 

 men. Well! I do not know what that has to do with the case even 

 were it true, though I went to Montreal and New York this vear 

 to meet the best men 1 could run across. Mr. Johnston wants to 

 know why I did not meet him last year at the Thousand Islands 

 if I wanted a race. This is unkind, to say the least, as he is well 

 aware that 1 purchased a canoe especially for those events when 

 I unfortunately sprained my ankle and was so prevented from 

 taking part in the leading events. 



Mr. Johnston says in one of his letters that be expected to be nipt 

 in a more friendly and fraternal spirit. Well. I'd like to know 

 what he wanted. H© at first said the time was too short, and I ex- 

 tended it nine days, i. e., till the 27tn. inst., then he said he would 

 like to go into a bicycle race on that date, and would like the race 

 to come off two or three days before the 27th. I then proposed the 

 24th, and he made no objections to that 'late, and dtd not propose 

 any other. I made all arrangements accordingly. Again he wrote 

 saying that he did not think he would go into the bic.\ cle race, and 

 asked to have the canoe race on the 27th, or later, but as I had 

 made all arrangements for the 24th I objected to be made a wea' her 

 cock of, and refused to paddle on any later date than the 24 L h, and 

 he refused to paddle on that date. 



Mr. Johnston made considerable of the point that I wished to 

 race him in my own town and on myown course, as I did, wishing 

 to let my Gait friends see a good fast contest. If Mr. Johnston 

 really wants to race I will now offer to paddle him over his own 

 course any time within the next two weeks, either half a mile or 

 a mile, with either single or double blades, either for a trophy or 

 for nothing, and will do any other reasonable thing to meet" his 

 wishes that be may desire. The only stipulation I will ask is t h at 

 whatever be wishes to do he must put it in writing, so that I may 

 not be bamboozled as I was at Gait by having a course survejed, 

 etc. 



Hoping to hear from him at an early date, bfg to sign myself, 

 Yours, etc. H. F. Mackendrick. 



Toronto, Oct. 1. 



Editor MaM: 



Mr. Mackendrick has, through your columns, at last made me a 

 very fair and reasonable offer, namely, to paddle on my own course 

 any time within two weeks, but I regret to say that I cannot 

 accept this offer because lam away from Toronto on business, and 

 do not know when I will see Toronto again. I do no expect to be 

 in Toronto for two or three weeks, except perhaps for a day or so. 

 Up to the 1st of Octoher Mr. Mackendri' k persistently refused to 

 race on any other date than the 24th, and in consequence of his 

 refusal I stopped training and came to the conclusion our race 

 was off. Mr. Mackendrick says it was unkind of me to asK why 

 he did not race me at Stave Island last year. I understood he had 

 purchased a racing canoe especially for the race. I was told he 

 was "lavine for me," and I thought 1 had a right to refer to the 

 fact that he was at the meet, taking part in other paddling races, 

 and did not. compete in the championship race. It is true I heard 

 that he had sprained his ankle, but I thought when he disregarded 

 his sore ankle and competed in other paddling races that he 

 might have forgotten the sprained ankle when the championship 

 race was called. I would not have referred to the matter at all 



wifh n hini Ir ' Mackendrick suggested that I wished to shirk the race 



f^ r ;n M ?1 ke n ndrick does not see wn y 1 should have referred to the 

 H? l^l - he never competed with any fan men, and thinks it 

 has nothing to do with the matter. Well, I simply referred t 0 it 

 when commenting on the nerve of Mr. Mnckendricit issuing his 

 famous challenge to all the world on the strength of his winning 

 * ol^^ he '? 13 n ? doa ^' 1 think - Mr - Mackendrick can drivl 

 a canoe along at great speed, especially with a single blade, but he 

 mwbt have issued the challenge earlier m the season and given 

 the boys a chance, to compete against him. It is to be hoped that Mr. 

 -viackendrick will change his mind about his retirement and come 

 ?J}ii n ^? sea l 0 . n ' as there are several paddlers beside mvself who 

 wmii^ P i Ute ?1 S r, g nt to the championship of the world, and who 

 would like at least to have a chance to compete with him. Yours, 



GODEBICH, Oct. 6. , M - F - JOHNSTON - 



CAMPING AT THE MEETS. 



rp HE officers of the Central Division have taken up a subject 

 +iL ^ 1S 0 V-f 16 g re . atest importance to every man who attends 

 the meets, and have just sent out the following circular, which 

 explains itself. We Hope that the replies will be sufficiently nu- 

 merous to give evidence of a general interest in the matter, and 

 that they will aid tuture committees in making better arrange- 

 ments for meals and supplies: B : 

 „£i a ''- Sir J , F or the purpose of investigating how canoeing has 

 P[°= r f tor the past five years, we have sent you the following 

 circular letter which we have addressed to all canoeists known 

 to us to have been present at the 1884, 1865 meets, and which we 

 ffi%*2°5 m 1 the interest of canoeing and of the American Canoe' 

 £?n°£f™Si & a , n . sw , e , r - J he substance of the answers received 

 ™ w KSi^ Forest and Stream, or Sail and Paddle, 

 unless a request by you is made to the contrary. Very tiuly 

 y° urs < Edwin L.'FrexVCh, 



n„ e*. t,r-„ , . James K. Bakeweld. • 



„„.^ nea T s f- « i 11 you please describe the amount of camping 

 outfit you took to the. first and last meets which you attended, 

 vnS^nffiVW ar A lcles < !' addpd to or subtracted from 

 doin 11 Detween these times, also stating your reasons for so 



224 Jersey Street, Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 27. 



r* 1 ^- BRITISH C. A. MEET.— From a rather brief account of 

 the third annual meet of the British Canoe Association at Fal- 

 mouth, in the October issue of the Model Yachtsman and Canoeist, 

 the first salt water meet," by the way, there seems to have been 

 very little of the true canoe meet such as has proved so successful 

 in America. There were few canoes and little racing, the canoe 

 yawls being ot more prominence than the regular canoes The 

 entertainments included a concert, a four-in-hand excursion a 

 cricket match, a visit to the training ship Ganges, and expeditions 

 to view the maneuvers of the naval fleet off Falmouth. The dis- 

 tinctive features of an American canoe camp were missing, and 

 the affair appears to have been a remarkably pleasant picnic or 

 camping with little canoeing to it. The officers elected were: 

 Com., John McGregor; Vice-Corn., H. Wilmer; Rear-Corn., J. D 

 Hayward; Sec'y-Treas., Percy Nisbet. Two new divisions were 

 established at Oxford and Cambridge. The report was so care- 

 fully worded this year as to give no offense to tne most sensitive 

 and delicate canoe owners. 



HOLYOKE C. C.-This club held its fall regatta on Oct, 11, the 

 events being as follows; 100yds. paddle, Judd, Towne and Hodg- 

 don starters, won by Hodgdon; 100yds. standing paddle, Selden, 

 Judd ana Parsons starters, won by Selden; sailing race, 2 miles, 

 W Lamb, Metcalf, Schuester and Ladd starters, won by Metcalf; 

 % mile tandem. Parsons and Hodgdon, Metcalf and Selden. Louis 

 and W. Lamb starter, won by Hodgdnn and Parsons; hurry-scurry 

 race. Morrow, Heywood, Syms and Judd starters, v. on by Mor- 

 row; Ya mile paddle race, for championship of Holyoke,'Selden 

 Metcaif and Towne starters, won by Metcalf. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS.- Vice-Com.-elect of the Eastern 

 Division Mr. J. W. Cart wrignt, Jr., has changed his address to 

 611 Washington street, Boston. 



A. C. A. MEMBERSHIP.— Atlantic Division: Frank W. Crane, 

 New York. 



to jUsarresgondmts. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



C. E.G., East Smith field.— Nitrate of mercury is used in per- 

 cussion caps ai_d is secured by a gum or shellac. 



M. S.. Albany.— The report of falconry in the Catskills has 

 decidedly the character of a newspaper "take." 



W M. H , Newport, R.T.— Will you please furnish me the ad" 

 dress of some good, reliable bieeder of blooihounds, one that you 

 know and can recommend? I wish to get one as soon as po.-sible, 

 already trained. Ans. You cannot do better than write to Mr. 

 Winchell, Fair Haven, Vt., whose advertisement you will find in 

 another column, 



F. H. B.. Bultimore, Md.— K ; Uarnev II., whelped April, 1883. 

 Breeder, R. G.Taylor. Baltimore, M'l. Sire Shomberg's Hela, by 

 Echo out of Lady Palmerstone. Dam, Killarnev, by Rufus II. 

 (Von Oulin's St. Patrick II.— Moll) out of VonCulin's Moll II. by 

 Rufus out of Friend. There is not aDafcpoi Connaugnt, of the 

 breeding you give, either in A.K.R. or A.K.C.S.B. 



W. J. S , New York.— In two townships in tbis State a law has 

 been passed pronibi'ing the shooting of ruffed gnnse over dngs 

 for a period of three years. Kindly tell me if the above would 

 apply to a peison shooting on his own property in said townships. 

 The law was made to keep the market-shooters away. Ans. 

 While the spirit of this particular law would not prohibit shoot- 

 ing on one's land, it is a rule that game laws apply to game on 

 one's own property as well as toother game; and under the law 

 named you cannot shoot with a dog at all. 



Austin, 111 —1. 1 am an amateur hunter on a small scale. I wish 

 to purchase a dog that will hunt for chickens or take to water 

 afier ducks. I am told a cocker is the best, but they seem too 

 small to me to stand the work. I wish your advice. I would pre- 

 fer a cocker as they are such nice dogs in the house, but don't 

 want one if he cannot hunt. 2. Also give proper proportions of 

 powder and size of shot with proporsion, for No. 12 gun. Ans. 1. 

 You would find a Clumber or field spaniel the best for your pur- 

 pose. You will obtain just the information you want in ' The 

 Spaniel and its Training," published by us. 2. See our book "8H 

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