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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 29, 1910. 
Motor 'Boating. 
Laying lip the Yacht. 
Nearly all the big yachts are now laid up. 
One by one they have been taken to the many 
basins and dismantled, and now only a very few 
are cruising a ong the coast. There are, how¬ 
ever, still many of the small craft in commis¬ 
sion, and their owners will hold on until the 
weather is too cold or too stormy for them to 
take any more pleasure on the water. To these 
enthusiasts it seems- as if it were only yester¬ 
day that they were working like beavers fitting- 
out their yachts for the summer season, and now 
they are figuring on laving up, and while the 
work will not be as pleasant, because when 
fitting out anticipation lends a charm to the 
work, these men take pleasure in putting their 
yachts in winter quarters. They do not have 
crews of sailors to do the work, but help each 
other haul out, and then do their own cleaning 
and covering, and making the engine and hull, 
if it is a motor boat, able to withstand the win¬ 
ter’s storms. 
There is a certain amount of gloom, though, 
when one after another these small craft are 
hauled on the beach, and their owners think of 
the many happy days they have spent on the 
water. They realize, too, how long the winter 
is to look forward to, and what a long time it 
will be before they can start fitting out. They 
wi 1 spend the winter nights sitting around the 
club house fires, telling over again their happy 
experiences of the summer. They will recall the 
many races in which they have taken part and 
resail them, and will figure how, if they had 
done this at that time or tacked earlier than they 
did. they would have had another flag to their 
credit. Others will laugh and crow over some 
clever piece of handling which enab’ed them to 
reach the finishing line ahead of some craft that 
should have won. 
When the time has come to lay up, there is 
lots to be done, and it must be done well or 
the yacht and its fittings will suffer. First. of 
all the fittings must be looked to. The furnish¬ 
ings or more perishable articles must be care¬ 
fully gone over. Cushions, mattresses, linens, 
curtains, awnings, sa’ls and rugs should be well 
beaten and dusted; then they should be thor¬ 
oughly aired and sunned and then carefully 
stowed in a dry, clean, roomy space. Many clubs 
have lockers for the members and large store 
rooms where sails and such like can be kept. 
Sails and awnings, curtains and draperies 
shou'd never be tightly rolled, but loosely folded 
so that the air can get to them, and they must 
be thoroughly dried before being stored or they 
will mildew during the winter. Sails and awn¬ 
ings should first be washed well in fresh water. 
This will take all the salt out and then, if washed 
again in a solution of borax and sugar of lead, 
mildew will be prevented. 
The compass, barometer, clock and other in¬ 
struments are usually taken home and used as 
ornaments in the den of the owner. 
The dishes, pots, pans, -knives and forks, 
spoons, glassware, must be carefully cleansed 
and packed in boxes or barrels. Barrels are 
preferable because they pack more easily and 
are more easily handled. Each box or barrel 
should be carefully labeled, and a systematic 
yachtsman will keep an inventory of everything 
he puts awav. and just where he puts it so that 
he can lay his hand on it when wanted. This 
inventory, too, is a wonderful help if the owner 
should sell the yacht. He can show exactly what 
he has and a good inventory will always help in 
the price realized on a yacht. 
Having put away all the fittings and furnish¬ 
ings. the uear of the yacht shou'd next be 
tackled. All ropes should be dried and care¬ 
fully coiled and each piece labeled, telling what 
its use is. Davits should be unshipped and tag¬ 
ged with their location, and such things as side 
ladders, boat hooks, brooms and deck swabs 
should be removed from the yacht and stored 
in the proper place. If there are lots of drawers 
and lockers, they should be carefully dusted. 
Drawers should be removed and lockers left 
open to allow the air to circulate freely, and 
floor boards should be taken up. Dead air in 
the yacht will do much to cause dry rot. If the 
yacht is left out of doors for the winter ports, 
hatches and the like must be battened down. It 
'is well to cover the yacht. If a small vessel a 
piece of an old sail will do. This should be 
stretched over the deck and fastened around 
the sides with battens. Wire nails driven through 
these battens, the sail cloth and into the hull of 
the vessel will do no harm. In order that the 
rain and snow may run off easily it would be 
well to put a ridge pole the length of the yacht 
fore and aft and so raise the canvas slightly. 
This, too, will allow the air to play freely over 
the deck. 
When the vessel is hauled out the bottom 
should be cleaned off while it is wet, and then 
it is a good thing to give the hull a coat of 
paint. This preserves the wood, and as the yacht 
must be painted in the spring, it lightens some 
of the work when fitting out is started again. 
Some yachtsmen burn off the old paint when 
they lay their yachts up, and then after rubbing 
down put on two coats. When launching time 
comes all that has to be done then is to put on 
another coat and the yacht is ready for launch¬ 
ing. 
On a motor boat the engine requires the most 
attention. Some think the best thing is to re¬ 
move the motor from the hull—this of course 
if it is not too large. Then it should be care¬ 
fully taken apart and each part thoroughly 
cleaned with kerosene and wiped aS dry as a 
bone, for kerosene if not wiped off will start 
rust very soon. Then smear each part thickly 
with grease. The parts that are worn can be 
replaced at leisure during the winter, so that 
they are ready for the reassembling of the motor 
in the spring. Much care has to be taken, 
though, in taking the motor apart. It is well to 
remember that it will be months before it is 
assembled again, and in that time the uses of 
the different nuts, bolts and other parts will have 
been forgotten, so each piece should be care¬ 
fully tagged. Put a tag on every bolt, nut, 
screw, cotter pin, spring, spark plug, valve, etc , 
using a number which will show the order in 
which it was removed, and on assembling work 
in the reverse of that order. All these parts 
should be packed away in small boxes; old cigar 
boxes come in very handy for this. If the motor 
is left in the hull for the winter it should be 
cleaned as thoroughly as possible. The piping 
should be disconnected and care taken that there 
is no water or gasolene in the motor. Then it 
should be greased everywhere and grease should 
be well worked into all the parts as thick as it 
is possible to put it on. 
After the motor has been removed or prop¬ 
erly cared for, the interior of the hull shou'd be 
washed thoroughly with strong soda water. Get 
a 1 1 the grease and oil out as far as possible. 
Wash out the bilges, and when the yacht is thor¬ 
oughly clean in every part she can be covered 
no and left safely until the spring comes again. 
If a yacht is properly laid up. there is little work 
comparatively to be done when fitting out be¬ 
gins. and a yacht properly laid up will stand 
stanch and sound until wanted. 
A Land and Water Craft. 
Experiments are being made at Bath, Me., by 
Rear Admiral John E. Howells, with a unique 
craft designed for land and sea navigation, known 
as Atnphi II. This vessel (or vehicle), says the 
Marine Journal is 20 feet long, 6 feet beam and 
has a tail 10 feet in length. The latter is used 
for steering purposes in the surf. A ten horse¬ 
power engine gives her a speed of seven miles 
an hdur in the water or twelve miles on land. 
Admiral Howells expects to bring Afnphi II. to 
Long Beach, L. I., if she proves satisfactory 
after trials at Popham and Old Orchard beaches, 
as he believes that such a boat could be used 
profitably at the life-saving stations or by sports¬ 
men gunning along the coast. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from any 
newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to supply you 
regularly. 
Canoeing. 
Through the Rideau Lakes. 
Continued from page 666. 
The next day we reached Big Rideau Lake, 
which is the largest single body of water on 
the whole chain, being 21 miles long by several 
miles wide. We stopped at a point of high land 
and at noon we ate our dinner standing up, as 
the place was actually alive with ants. They 
were going up and down the tree trunks, over 
the rocks, and if you sat down you soon had 
them inside your shirt. And that they could 
bite we can prove through experience. Cutting 
our dinner hour short, we moved on and en¬ 
joyed rough sea all afternoon. We passed 
many camps whose occupants watched our pro¬ 
gress, but evidently, only those who were on 
urgent business paddled that afternoon, as we 
met no one up to camping at 4 p. m., when 
rain began to fall. Our camp was in a cedar 
grove and Dick collected cedar boughs for a 
bed, while I was fixing the soup and potato 
salad. Never was a more refreshing sleep en¬ 
joyed than we had that night, and Dick laughed 
when I said it smelled like Chritsmas. 
Out again at seven the next day to find our 
work cut out for us again by the wind. We 
narrowly escaped capsizing several times, 
finally being obliged to head out of our way to 
the shelter of a point to get our second wind. 
Making a carry across the point, we entered 
Rideau River, which was a little calmer than 
the lake. We found great difficulty in avoiding 
submerged stumps which were numerous on 
both sides of the river. Here the channel was 
again marked by evergreen trees on floats. 
The channel was so winding that frequently we 
tried to cut across lots as it were, only to run 
on, or into, more stumps. 
For three miles we enjoyed this channel, then 
we entered Poonamlie Cut where we stopped 
lor dinner. Seventy years ago when this cut 
was excavated through the rock, the original 
forest was destroyed, but nature has again 
clothed the banks in green, and the trees spread¬ 
ing across the channel often form an arch 
through which only a glimpse can be had of the 
beautiful scenery ahead; and the air was heavy 
with the perfume of the thousands of water 
lilies and other aquatic blossoms of various 
colors, which grew so abundantly along the 
water’s edge. 
Reaching Smith’s Falls, which has about 6.000 
inhabitants, we replenished our stock of pro¬ 
visions and, being assisted over four locks by 
the locktenders, continued on our way. Grow¬ 
ing somewhat weary "at four o’clock we decided 
to go to camp at the first suitable spot, which 
proved to be at the entrance to Maitland locks 
called Kilmarnock. 
While making camp we sighted the top of an¬ 
other tent above the. trees several hundred feet 
away and immediately set forth to investigate. 
We found a fine camp and three up-to-date lads, 
Basin, Oswald and Keith Todd, of' Ottawa, who 
made our visit so enjoyable that when their 
daddy, who had been whipping the stream for a 
large, elusive bass, appeared and invited us to 
pitch our tent next door, we accepted. All 
hands had supper together and it proved the 
most enjoyable meal of the trip. 
We hear much of campers’ early hours and 
of their seeking their blankets with the set of 
the sun, but we heed no such doctrine. Night 
in the wilderness is rich with a mysterious 
beauty, an immensity of solitude such as day 
cannot dream of. Supper over, we stretched 
ourselves out before the camp-fire, and beyond 
the yellow firelit circle through the trunks and 
hanging branches, we watched the still gleam¬ 
ing river, whence at intervals would ring out 
startlingly clear, the goblin laughter of the loon. 
Stories of thrilling adventures and narrow es¬ 
capes are often told by veterans of the wars 
of the past when the spell of the woods and 
the camp-fire recall them to memory. Our 
host, Colonel Todd, of Ottawa, related to us 
