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Title: Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed
Subjects: Boats and boating
Publisher: New York, London, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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arp sticks on beaches,such a canoe should last for years. The canoes manu-factured by the Old Town Canoe Company of Old Town,Maine, or by the Racine Boat Company of Racine, Wis-consin, are good examples. A sixteen-foot canoe costsabout $35. The wooden canoe is made of cedar, usuallywith oak ribs and combings. If it is to be used as a sailingcanoe it is generally decked over, having a small cockpit.This naturally increases its safety in rough water. Thesecanoes cost from $65 to $150, according to nickel fittings. In the Canadian rivers, lakes, and some parts of Maine,where a few Indians live, there will still appear the frail,graceful, birch-bark canoe. They are light and easy topaddle when not going against the wind. I have pur-chased an eighteen-foot canoe for $15 and sold it at $10when I came out of the woods. A birch-bark canoe is easily injured, and the seams needattention every night on landing if the paddling is done ina river where sandy shallows or rocks scrape the bottom. 3i4
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BOATING BOOK FOR BOYS Repairing a Canoe To mend a tear or rip in a canvas or bark canoe, ortighten up the seams, there is a gumlike substance thatcan be purchased at any outfitters which when heated formsa waxlike covering over the opening which is watertight.The Indians melt a little pitch and rosin in an iron pot andsmear it on with a stick. I have camped with Indians whocarry a small pot full for that purpose tucked up in the bowof the canoe. Adhesive tape will also mend a canoe, andsurgeons plaster will answer this purpose. Beeswax willstop leaks. How to Paddle To paddle a canoe needs a little practice and understand-ing of its ways. Never push out from shore and then at-tempt to jump in, as you might do in a rowboat. Havethe canoe afloat beside a rock, if possible, or let the bowmerely touch the sand; then step lightly in—do not jump—and if two are going, the sternman sits or kneels down,steadying the canoe by holding to a branch or rock, or, ifhe desires to steady the boat b

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