Nov. 9, igoi.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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DURWINA— Designed by Gardner & Cox. Built by Frank Wood. 
Phtito by James Burton. 
to the bottom of the falls. 
A keen glance satisfied me. I was in line with the 
shoot. I tightly closed my hatches, pulled my apron up 
to my chin, tucked the corners well in aft and grasped my 
paddle. 
"Let go!" I shoitted. "Throw my painter well up on 
my deck !" 
"All free!" shouted George, in reply, as he flung my 
painter in a coil, close up behind me on my aft hatch, and 
gave my canoe a parting push. 
"Look sharp, now!" he shouted after me, as I was 
caught up in the remorseless whirl and hurled swiftly 
away. 
The rush of water set straight for the two rocks, and 
without even dipping my paddle in the water, my canoe 
shot squarely between them, and plunged over the fall. 
The canoe seemed to leap bodily out of the water, and to 
land flat, full length at once, fairly in the I^-east of the 
huge wave below the fall, whose whitened crest towered 
high above my head, and whose spray blinded me for an 
instant, as the wave rolled bodily over my boat from 
stem to stern as she dived through. 
Pitching and tossing, rocking and tumbling, with the 
big waves smashing into spray on my decks, and rolling 
in solid sheets breast high over my closed hatches, leaping 
from ledge to ledge, with the black, ugly, grinning rocks 
shooting swiftly up stream by me on each side, I made the 
rest of the fall, and it was all over, and I was safely rock- 
ing up and down on the smooth, undulating water at the 
foot of the falls before I had time to breathe more than 
two or three times, and with a big yell of triumph and 
relief I rounded to in the lee of a gigantic mass of rock 
to see the other two come down the hill, meanwhile wiping 
the water from my face, eyes and hair, and wringing out 
my dripping sleeves as I waited, feeling as happy and 
exuberant the while as a boy who has just made bis 
escape from the dentist's chair with his erstwhile aching 
molar in his pocket. 
Down they came. Lacy next and George not far be- 
hind, their boats plunging and leaping, and throwing them- 
selves out of the water, until I could see half the length 
of their keels along their glistening, black hulls, while 
the water ran in sheets oft' their decks. With shouts of 
triumph they joined me. and Watson's Falls were run. 
"Well," exclaimed George, as he scrambled up out of 
his canoe on to the massive ledge in front, and gathered in 
a comprehensive view of the falls above with his kodak, 
"it took us over two hours to ' reconnoitre this fall, and 
not over two minutes to run it." 
"Yes, and it was worth the entire trip," enthusiastically 
exclaimed Lacy. "Let's go back and do it over." 
"I'd willingly do it again, if it were practicable, for no 
other reason than to send that muttonhead of a George 
down first to kodak the rest of us as we came down," I 
responded. 
"I don't know what I was thinking of that I didn't do 
it," replied George. 
"The truth is, we were all so excited and rattled that 
no one thought of it until too late," said Lacy. 
"That's about the size of it," I replied. 
In the meantime the natives, working on their fish trap 
opposite, attracted by tuy yell, looked up from their occu- 
pation in time to see George and Lacy come down the 
falls, and, wild with excitement, they danced up and 
down, and gesticulated frantically, and shouted words of 
warning to us, inaudible in the roar of the water, and 
then making a rush for their boat, they came bowling 
across the swift water below the falls as fast as a long, 
lank, leather-lunged specimen of the genus homo, stand- 
ing in the stern and wielding a long push-pole, could 
shove it. all the while shouting warnings to us. coupled 
with scraps of breathless, fragmentary information as to 
the river below, in reply to my queries, all carried on at 
the top of his lungs, oblivious to the fact that by this 
time my canoe was dancing lightly up and down on the 
swells directly alongside of his own big boat, whose 
■ample gunwale loomed up high above my wet, shining 
decks, as I grasped it with my hands, the occupants of 
the boat meanwhile regarding with wonder and dis- 
trust my frail,- diminutive craft. 
"You'll never git thar in God-a-mity's world !" he 
yelled, when I informed him that we were bound for 
Harper's Ferry. "Them little boats is too light! They'll 
he smashed into kin'lin' wood long afore ye git thar. 
Them falls above thar ain't nothin' to what they is 
below." 
With the assurrance that we would try and make the 
boats hold out, we paddled On down the swift river, and 
left him still shouting. 
[to be continued.] 
♦ 
Dorwina and Effort. 
One of the most remarkable boats of the year is Dor- 
wina, the champion of the 43ft. class on Long Island 
Sound. Although there were practically but two boats 
that participated in continuous racing in the 43ft. class, the 
other boat being Effort, a new Herreshoff production. 
Dorwina wound up the season by an almost unbroken 
series of victories. Effort coming out a poor second. 
Credit must be given to Mr. Addison Hanan, owner of 
the ill-fated cutter Astrild, for the splendid manner in 
which he handled Dorwina. Mr. Hanan was in charge in 
almost every race, and in consequeitce Effort was outsailed 
on almost every .occasion. Dorwina could go up to the 
51ft. class and more than save her time over Altair and 
Humma in any weather, and several titnes she has beaten 
them, boat for boat. 
Dorwina was designed by Mr. William Gard- 
ner, of the firm of Messrs Gardner & Cox. for 
Mr. W. L. Ward, of Port Chestei-.- N. Y.. and was 
built by Mr. Frank Wood at his City Island Yard. Dor- 
wina is a semi-composite boat, having steel frames amid- 
ships, and wooden ones in the overhangs. Mr. Wood gave 
much attention to the construction of the boat, and as 
she stands she is one of the finest built boats in yVmerica 
to-day. Dorwina '9ne of the handsoitiest boats thai; 
Mr. Gardner ever turned out, and has been a matter of 
considerable comment. She has a large amount of interior 
accommodation. Going down the companionway into a 
roomy steerage, there is a berth on the starboard side; 
opposite on the port side is a roomy stateroom with 
hanging lockers, transoms, etc. The main cabin has two 
long transoms, with lockers behind. Forward on the port 
side is the lavatory, with a closet and folding basin, and 
on the starboard side is the galley. The forecastle has 
ample room for the four men that were carried as a 
regular crew. Heavy partitions separate the several apart- 
ments on . the boat, and she was seldom stripped for 
racing ; in fact, the boat was in cruising trim all summer. 
There is full headroom in the main cabin, stateroom and 
steerage. The cabin house is low and narrow, which 
leaves plenty of deck room on either side. At the after 
end of the cabin house two deck beams run across the 
boat, which materially stift'en her. Dorwina is 59ft. over 
all, 36ft. waterline, 12ft. beam and 8ft. 6in. draft. She 
was recently purchased by Mr. Clift'ord Brokaw, who 
will race her during the coming season. 
Effort was designed and built by the Herreshoff Mfg. 
Co. at Bristol. R. I. She is planked with mahogany and 
has an oak cabin house. The rig and spars on Effort 
were in bad shape during the early part of the season, and 
underwent many changes before they were finally made 
satisfactory. The boat was practically open from stem 
to stern, there being no partitions or bulkheads, and she 
was kept constantly stripped during the season. She is 
59ft. over all, .36ft. on the waterline, lift, beam and 
8ft. 7in. draft. She is owned bv Mr. F. M. Smith. 
The House-Boat Rancocas. 
The outboard profile and cabin plan of the house-boat 
Rancocas, which are published in this issue, were de- 
signed hy Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. 
Tams, Lemoine & Crane, for Mr. Clarence R. Dolan, of 
Philadelphia. Pa. The boat was intended for use on 
Chesapeake Bay, and in order that the many tributaries 
of the bay might be accessible, it was necessary to keep 
EFFORT— Designed and Built by the Herreshofi Mfg. Co, 
