boat, it being nothing more or less than a large air 
tank. 
To-day the question seems to be what style of boat will 
be the best for the A. C. A. to encourage so as to get 
more men in the sailing races and possibly some of the 
old-timers at it again. 
The development of the machine certainly has cut the 
sailing fleet down, as it is hard to get more than six or 
eight in the races at the meets to-day. If the Association 
by encouraging a heavier cruising style of boat could get 
a fleet of twenty or more in the races, as of old, I have no 
doubt but that the men sailing the machines to-day would 
gladly give them up and go in for the cruising class even 
more enthusiastically than they do now for the machines, 
for there are none of them but would like to see a larger 
sailing fleet. 
Considering all the years of trial of the machines and 
the result, would it not be well this next year to change 
the rules, debarring such boats from the races, trophy 
and all, and try a boat of the cruising type, and if such a 
change were made what better style could you get than a 
bilge board. If a rule be made to govern such boats it 
should be very positive as to weight, strength, etc., as 
the only object of making such a change would be to get 
a boat so steady that the average canoeist could sail it 
without being an athlete, as some claim you must be to 
sail a machine. I think the old cruising canoe rule a 
pretty good description of the boat wanted. 
The changes I would make in Foggy Dew, were I to 
build such a boat again, are very few, and would deal 
more with the fittings than with the boat. The center- 
boards should be the new form of hoisting dagger board, 
and the keel should project below the garboards so as to 
protect the boat more in pulling up on the float or dock. 
I have always used a 5ft. deck seat for racing or cruis- 
ing, having gotten to the time when I go only where the 
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sails will take me, and when I do have to use the paddle 
I slip the top of the seat off and stow it on the deck 
forward. 
The traveler for the dandy sheet I find very useful on 
a cruising boat to put the ends of the paddle under when 
sailing, for I always carry it on deck and not in the 
cockpit, on account of the cockpit bag. 
I would never cruise again without the water-tight 
canvas bag in the cockpit, for -with it an upset means very 
little, as you do not get much water aboard, and there 
is no fear of losing any of your duffle. 
The Norwegian steering gear I find a great advantage 
over the old chain, as it leaves the after-compartment 
hatch entirely free for storing away duffle. 
For the rig I would recommend lowering sails of some 
kind, and in the rigging of them I would certainly 
have them reefable from the cockpit. The halyards should 
go through dead eyes or blocks on the deck instead of on 
the foot of mast, so that in case of an upset they will hold 
the sails in the boat. 
The sail limit I think should be left just about what 
it now is, 130ft., as a heavy cruising boat would be able 
to easily carry that amount. I am using the same lower- 
ing rig on Foggy Dew to-day that I had made for Uno in 
1890. I have also a standing rig of about 128ft. for racing. 
When the wind blows she holds her own pretty well with 
the racing boats. 
She has always won the cruising race when she has 
been at the meets, where it has been held. She finished 
second in the Combined in '92. In '96 she was second to 
Mab in the Hotel Champlain cup. In June, '98, she was 
second at the special canoe race of the Atlantic Y. C, and 
at the '99 meet she was first in one of the Sailors' Union 
races, and second in another. In the race for the 
Gananoque banner she was fifth, so with boats of her 
type the racing need not be so very slow even though 
there are no machines. 
In conclusion, do not think that I am against the ma- 
chines, as I am not; for I have always favored everything 
that has tended to make them what they are, bttt I 
do favor making any change that will bring out a larger 
fleet, and if a heavy cruising canoe will do it, why I, for 
one, say lets have it. H. Lansing Quick. 
YoNKERS, Jan. 23. 
The Boston Sportsman's Show, 
Canoeing will play a very prominent part in the aquatic 
programme of the Sportman's Show, which will be held 
in Mechanics' Hall, Boston, from Feb. 22 to March 10, 
under the auspices of the Massachusetts Sportsmen's As- 
sociation. The canoe events will be under the auspices of 
the Eastern Division of the American Canoe Association, 
and governed by its rules. Mr. Paul Butler, perhaps more 
prominently identified with the history of canoe meets 
of this country than any other man, and Mr. L. A. Hall, 
the Rear-Commodore of the American Canoe Associa- 
tion, have charge of all arrangements. 
The canoe events will take place during the last week 
of the show, beginning Monday evening, March S, and 
closing with the finals on Saturday evening, March 10. 
Every night during the show there will be an upset canoe 
exhibition by Ernest R. Adams, of the Wawbewaw^ 
