FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 15, 1910. 
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Chesapeake Bay Y. C. 
The members of the Chesapeake Bay Y. C. 
have elected the following officers for the year: 
Commodore, Col. F. C. Goldsborough; Vice- 
Commodore, T. Clifford Morris; Rear-Com¬ 
modore, Beverley D. Beebe; Treasurer, A. 
L. Tharp; Secretary, A. A. Hathaway; Fleer 
Captain, Meredith Dryden; Fleet Surgeon, Dr. 
James A. Stevens; Fleet Chaplain, Rev. Dr. S. 
D. McConnell; Official Measurer, Graham John¬ 
son; Member of the Board of Governors, Col. 
Oswald Tilghman; Regatta Committee—T. Clif¬ 
ford Morris, George J. Kinney and Graham 
Johnson. 
Canoeing. 
Care of the Canoe. 
The man who puts away his gun after a wet 
day’s shooting neither cleaned nor oiled, or his 
rod, and especially his line, undried after fish¬ 
ing, says the Field, will certainly reap a full 
harvest of trouble in unworkable mechanisms 
and rotten gear. Some trust to servants, poor 
fools!—the true sportsman takes pride in the 
caretaking of his own implements of the sport, 
and has almost as much pleasure in their care 
as in their using. What, then, can be said in 
mitigation of the offense of stowing away a 
sailing canoe for the whole winter with all her 
gear and sails left pretty well just as they were 
on the last day of sailing? Yet this is actually 
the case with probably half the sailing canoes 
in existence. 
A visit to some boathouses on the Thames a 
short while since, after the floods had subsided, 
revealed very much this state of things, viz., 
the canoe half full of various gear, ropes, cush¬ 
ions and covers, with perhaps a wet canvas bag 
fender or two dumped in among the gear, all 
left to fester till next spring. The sails, in 
many instances, without covers, were left on 
the spars to stretch with the winter’s damp and 
to catch the black and dirt, or, where coated 
with painted sail covers, to stew in non-ventila¬ 
tion and get mildew during the foggy winter 
months. Is it, then, surprising to see in the 
spring the played-out appearance of the craft, 
even when just fitted out with new varnish? 
The winter is yet young; indeed, several of 
the canoes have not been long in winter quar¬ 
ters, and any owner who takes a pride in his 
boat will do well to open out everything on 
the first fine, sunny day he can manage. Cold 
is no harm; sun and air for a couple or three 
midday hours, with a careful pack up after it, 
will ensure 2l fair turnout at Easter next. Un¬ 
bend the sails from the spars; they can be 
finally dried at home. A river boathouse is no 
fit place to keep valuable sails all the winter, 
especially where floods run inches high over 
the floors. All ropes and rigging on the mast, 
and also even the spars, should be housed in 
spar bags or well wrapped up in covering of 
some sort, and the metal work and shackles 
should be well greased. I always use long bags 
of light duck; these keep out all dirt, most of 
the damp, and yet ventilate fairly, whereas 
dressed covers simply steambath the things in¬ 
side them. 
The canoe herself should be carefully cleaned 
and aired dry. If water be left lodging in the 
compartments it will soak eventually into the 
wood and cause rot. The slime on the bottom 
can be brushed off, or even sponged off, while 
new and wet, but once it is allowed to dry on 
her it will harden in and require scraping to 
remove it. The whole hull, inside and out, 
should be thoroughly washed and dried, and 
then, and not till then, her light duck cover 
may be put on to ward off the winter’s attack 
of dirt and damp. No part of her bottom, 
except the keel band, should touch ground; a 
few pieces of wood or a boat stool will keep 
her clear of the usual cement floor. Of course, 
all hatch covers or bulkhead doors should be 
unshipped, so that air may circulate, and all 
weighty fittings, such as center plate and rud¬ 
der, taken out of her; otherwise in so light a 
structure her form may become .warped. 
It may be that I am precociously careful, but 
I always give these matters minute attention. 
Before actually stowing away for the winter, 
every bit of wire rigging is lightly varnished, 
every inch of running rope is lightly rubbed 
with linseed oil, and blocks, pins, and shackles 
are vaselined. On the hull the metal work is 
lightly brushed with vaseline, so also the gun- 
metal center plate and rudder; then when all 
covers are on the winter’s damp has little or 
no damaging effect. Even so, I always take, 
once a month, a fine-day opportunity to open 
out and air everything. 
The greatest enemy the sailing canoe has is 
salt water; everything in and about the canoe 
becomes saturated during the sailing, and then 
the salt, later, hides itself under a dry appear¬ 
ance of things, only to play its own game of 
rust and ruin when the damp of winter comes 
on. No doubt the careful man on return to 
fresh water gives his craft a thorough wash 
out; but does he also wash his sails? It is not 
OFFICERS OF THE ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
merely the foot of the sail; the whole sail is 
full of salt, wetted when close reefed, or in 
many other ways common to the sea. I pick 
a dry, sunny day, ease off the lashings, and 
then syringe well with fresh water, and dry 
them thoroughly before hauling out head and 
foot. With these bo’sun’s attentions the canoe 
and her gear, delicate though they be, will last 
in perfect yacht order for years. 
A. C. A.—Atlantic Division. 
An Atlantic Division (A. C. A.) executive 
committee meeting was held at the Red Dragon 
C. C. on the Delaware River, Saturday evening, 
Dec. 18, 1909. 
Vice-Commodore Quasebart presided. Tims, 
Wilson, Furman, Andreas and Ayres of the 
committee were present, also Messrs. Fort and 
Gauntt, of the Lakanoo Boat Club. Edgar and 
Woodhouse, of the Dragons, were on hand and 
other Dragons who dropped in included Logan, 
Fleischmann, Blumner and Heminway. Rou¬ 
tine business was transacted, bills paid and then 
the following general plan for the year acted 
on: 
Annual Division dinner in Philadelphia, Pa., 
Saturday evening, Feb. 19. 
Cruise on the Hackensack, May 14 and 15. 
West Nyack to Hackensack. 
Cruise down the Rancocas over Memorial 
Day, May 29, 30, 31. 
Division Meet, June 25 to July 4, consisting 
of a cruise from Easton down the Delaware to 
Burlington Island, June 25 to 29, and a camp 
at Burlington Island, June 29 to July 4. All 
races (except decked sailing) to be run off at 
this camp. 
Labor Day camp at Hermit Point, Sept. 3, 
4, 5- Decked sailing races to be held at this 
time. 
Committees and plans for these events to be 
published later. 
Frederic Andreas presented two additional 
prizes for events during the year, the purser 
reported the finances in good condition and 
Vice-Commodore Quasebart announced that he 
intended to issue a New Year’s letter to the 
members of the Atlantic Division. Most of the 
out-of-town fellows arrived before supper and 
stayed over night, so that the meeting proved 
to be an enjoyable outing. 
Frank T. Wilson, Purser. 
Canoe Trip Down the Mississippi. 
Kiyo Sue Inui, the Japanese boy who ex¬ 
plored the Mississippi River in an 18-foot canoe, 
now thinks that he will ship the canoe to 
Japan as a curio. 
A graduate of the University of Michigan, 
Inui is a rapid and fluent talker and a fine 
athlete, says the New Orleans Daily Picayune. 
He made the long journey in an 18-foot cedar 
canoe, and now believes that he will ship the 
frail craft to Japan as .a sort of curio. They 
have no boats of the kind in the Flowery King¬ 
dom, he says. Whether the canoe goes to his 
native land or not, Inui is going there soon, 
and he will be well equipped, he thinks, to give 
some interesting lectures on American life, 
illustrated lectures that will deal with the great 
Mississippi Delta in particular. 
Lecturing halted him many times on the trip. 
He figures that he was on the water about 
120 days, at that. It is only a trifle of 3,160 
miles from Lake Itasca to the Gulf. He brought 
a letter to Mayor Behrman from Theodore 
Wegman, president of the township of Lake 
Itasca, and delivered it. He arrived at the 
pilot station at 4:30 p. m. Dec. 23, stopping 
there for the night and going on to the light¬ 
house, a quarter-mile away, at the foot of the 
“Father of Waters,” on the day following. 
Lighthouse-keeper John Seagrave did not take 
him for Santa Claus, but quickly wrote a letter 
certifying his arrival, which Inui might show 
Santa or any one else at all. The young fellow 
boarded the Morse and came back as far as the 
boat traveled, when he caught a train and 
finished the journey back to New Orleans. 
The Japanese traveler carried tent, blankets 
and complete camping outfit with him on the 
trip, using the tent invariably at night unless 
at a town where he intended a stay of two or 
three days. He said that it was a little 
chilly camping out o_n two nights during the 
three-day paddle over the 120 miles from New 
Orleans to the mouth of the river, but the pilots 
gave him a big welcome and he is very, very 
glad that he finished the jaunt. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
new members proposed. 
Atlantic Division.—Hiram S. Lukens, 21 n 
Tioga St., Philadelphia, Pa., by Frank T. 
Wilson. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—5926, Walter J. Ebbels, 560 
W. 180th street, New York city. 
MEMBERS DECEASED. 
Atlantic Division.—1097, Daniel C. McEwen, 
160 Sterling place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Died Nov. 
1, 1909. 
Atlantic Division.—1661, Charles Ledyard 
Norton, Sandwich, Mass. Died Dec. 14, 1909, 
in his 72d year. 
Two more of our older members have landed 
on the farther shore of that river toward which 
we all are cruising. We note the end of their 
long cruise with regret. Mrs. Norton writes 
that almost the last words of Mr. Norton related 
to the A. C. A., the rivers and the sea. At the 
last he thought he was cruising with his old 
friend, Kirk Munroe, and saying, “See the light 
on the marsh,” his light went out. 
Samuel B. Burnham, 
Treasurer, A. C. A. 
