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Identifier: ForeststreamXXIIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ber strap or grummet lashed to thetraveler. The bight of a long painter is hitched to this grummet andthe end also belayed as a preventer in case the rubber strap shouldgive away. Such a simple arrangement I found to answer admirably.But why do vacthsmen not irv some style of collapsable boat, to stowsnugly in the gangway or on the cabin floor? A variety of such boatsfire in the mai-ket and only a want of enterprise in trying somethingnew interferes with their becoming generally recognized as a boon tothe owners of small yachts. If these be not fancied, then build thetender or skiff iu such fashion as to stow on deck iu someway. Thereis a wide field for experiment janyway in thia matter of yachttenders. The boats now so commonly in use are about the worstwhich could be devised, cranky, poor carriers, easily swamped inrough water, heavy and costly. For $10 a better boat in every waycan be buUt than the $40 copy of the Whitehall wherry. C. P. i-> Dec. 25, 1881) FOREST AND STREAM. 4BB
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OPEN CENTERBOARD BOAT CRUISER. CRUISER. THE long warfare which Forept and Stream has waged againstthe bhnd worship of the sandbag model that has so long pre-vailed among American yachtsmen, is well known to our readers.This model, the Joint outcome of iocal surrounding In the shape ofmud flats, and the narrow and illogical rule of length measurement,has made its influence felt throughout the entire yacht fleet, manyeven of the boats of greatest tonnage being simply enlarged cari-catures of the 16 to 20ft. open boats in model, ballast, and as nearlyas possible in rig. Almost all types of boats, however, have some usefor which they are specially fitted, tome purpose, usually the one forwhich they were first designed, which they fiU better than any othercraft can,and it is only when diverted from this end to one for whichthey were never intended, that the harm begins. Thus it has beenwith the type in question. Intended first for speedin shoal water, regardless of an occasional capsize or

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