March, 1922 
Steel guard for propeller 
steerage way, he could maneuver her in 
and out among the rocks like a dodging 
trout. It took us barely thirty-five min- 
utes to make the run from the Eel Weir 
to camp, and the last mile was all still- 
water. 
That was the first gasoline-driven 
craft to make the trip up the river, and 
it has not, to my knowledge, been done 
since. But it demonstrates the possi- 
bilities of a motorboat in this work. 
Incidentally we did hit some rocks,- — one 
so hard that I bit my pipe stem clear in 
two. I was sitting on the engine-room 
1 hatch, and as the heel of the skeg 
bounced ofif of one rock down onto an- 
other, I felt as though I had received 
a good swift kick in the tropics from an 
' earthquake. 
' I f the propeller had not been protected 
by a racket-shaped steel guard (as shown 
in the picture) we would have crippled 
our blades before we had gone a quarter 
of a mile upstream. The form of guard 
shown was, I believe, first used by the 
writer, and after many experiments with 
other shapes. It seems to be ideal for 
perfect protection and has the added ad- 
vantage, owing to its form, of impeding 
the boat’s headway but slightly. 
'^HERE is no doubt but what the now 
historic voyage of the first (and 
only) motorboat over the Kejimkujik 
! rapids was a dangerous experiment. 
However, it serves as a demonstration 
of a new field of endeavor for the 
‘T'icker,” and though the trip has not 
’ been repeated in its entirety, many boats 
lu'U'e since gone part way up the river. 
Saving time in getting to fishing- 
waters, or to hunting grounds, means 
more time to fish and hunt, and conse- 
quently more game killed during a given 
period. The additional cost of hiring or 
operating a motorboat over that of pro- 
pelling a craft by hand is more than made 
up in the saving in guides’ wages and 
other overhead expenses coincident with 
a sporting trip. Fast boats of the speed 
type are not practical for the rocky lakes 
and streams of Eastern Canada and the 
United States, as hunting boats are 
largely used in uncharted and out-of-the- 
way waters where there is continual dan- 
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