1014 
FOREST AND S T REAM 
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In the plug baits, there is the Surf Oreno, a surface 
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GLORIES OF THE SINGLE HAND CANOE 
AN ARTICLE FOR THE MAN WHO REALLY WANTS TO OWN 
A CRAFT THAT WILL TAKE HIM WHERE HE WANTS TO GO 
By Sydney G. Fisher. 
S PRING time bring thoughts of canoeing. May I sing 
the song of my favorite, the single hand open- 
canvas. canoe, 12, 13 or 14 feet long. 
Many people who have canoed a good deal are firmly 
convinced that it is practically impossible to handle 
an empty canoe alone; or at any rate that there is no 
pleasure or satisfaction in it. Such people have often 
gone camping out with guides and canoes in Maine and 
Canada, have taken scores of their sweethearts pad¬ 
dling, and they suppose themselves to be not without 
knowledge. But going with guides so much prevents 
you ever learning some of the most blessed things in 
nature. Your faculties and resourcefulness go to sleep. 
I have often been surprised at the helplessness and 
ignorance of some very intelligent persons who have 
been in the woods a great deal. They have been guided 
to death, or at any rate, into ignorance. The long 
canoes, 18 and even 20 feet, taken on camping trips by 
and the great advantage of communing quietly with 
nature. He wants to enjoy to the full the great ad¬ 
vantages a canoe gives by enabling you to face the 
way you are going instead of backward as in a row 
boat. 
Of course, racing canoeists and high experts, can 
handle an 18 footer as a single hander with considerable 
ease. But the ordinary man, the usual sedentary man 
that wants exercise, finds an 18 footer or even a 16 
footer, too much of a drag on him, especially if the 
wind rises, or he has to paddle against a current. 
Such men feel that they would enjoy canoeing by them¬ 
selves and that it would he good for them. They look 
over catalogues, go to sporting goods’ stores, see noth¬ 
ing but long canoes, are told that the long ones are 
faster; they buy one, and are woefully disappointed. 
Their canoe is soon for sale or is seldom used. 
Now a word as to the theory that length gives speed. 
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guides, are, of course, quite difficult for an amateur 
aioue. ine guide does all the work; the 
amateur helps a little and learns nothing. As for the 
fellows that have paddled their sweethearts so much, 
well, of course, they are blind to everything else. 
The canoes you see on sale are nearly always long 
ones. The single handers are the exception. B. N. 
Morris of Veazie, Me., keeps 12 footers and 13 footers 
in stock. The Chestnut Canoe Company of Fredrickton, 
New Brunswick, makes a 12 and a 14. Beyond that I 
know of no firm that has the singles regularly for 
sale, except that the Carleton Canoe Company of Old 
Town, Me., will make you one to order for an extra 
price. 
Sometimes when a short canoe is advertised in a 
maker’s catalogue, instead of saying that it is for only 
one person, he gives a photograph of it loaded down to 
the danger point, with four or five people and says: 
“Just see how many it will hold.” This is good busi¬ 
ness policy from his point of view; for he knows that 
most users of canoes, or at any rate most buyers of 
them, try to get as many people into them as possible 
and think that this is the great fun of canoeing. 
They are welcome to their fun in that way, of course. 
But I am not writing for their benefit, or for the ben¬ 
efit of the canoe racer and high technical expert. I 
am writing for the man who is more or less sedentary 
and wants canoeing as an exercise, who does not care 
to potter about for infinitesimal distances in a craft 
deeply laden with women and children, but who wants 
to get away for good afternoon or all-day excursions, 
cover a fairly good distance, and have variety of scene 
Of course it does. The eight oared racing shell is all 
length. Hardly any width at all compared to its 
length; and the extreme narrowness is prevented from 
capsizing it by having the oars support it from out¬ 
riggers. Many fast-sailing boats, like those of some 
of the Pacific islands, are arranged on the same prin¬ 
ciple of outriggers to support a hull excessively long 
for its width. But there are other elements to be 
considered besides length. Even where great speed is 
desired, these other elements are considered. The fast¬ 
est racing yachts in the world that contend for the 
international trophy, the America Cup, are not in¬ 
stances of mere length. They are compromises and 
combinations of three elements, length, displacement 
and sail area; and to carry their sail area, they have 
to be wide and deep as well as long. 
Length is only one element in speed. Length gives 
speed other things being equal; and the other things 
are not always equal. Length will not give speed 
in an eight-oared shell unless there are eight oarsmen 
and pretty good ones. You cannot do anything much- 
in an eight-oared shell by yourself. Nor will length 
give speed in an international cup defender yacht un¬ 
less the sail area is proportioned to the length. 
It is the same with canoes. An 18-foot canoe is fast 
if you put enough propelling force in it to make use 
of its length. It requires two paddles usually, or one 
unusually strong one. If you reduce the propelling 
force the extra length and extra weight begin to act as 
a handicap; and if the wind rises the one paddler has 
to use a large part of his strength in merely keeping 
the bow from being blown off the course, until, as the 
