Identifier: completewildfowl00dunc (find matches)
Title: Complete wildfowler
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Duncan, Stanley Gull, Cyril Ranger
Subjects: Game and game-birds Shooting
Publisher: New York, Outing pub. co.
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Sail Plan of Yawl for Fishing- and Shooting run long distances for coal. Other items are extra cost ofworking a steam vessel for this sport, mechanical repairs, etc.If a steam vessel is selected, it should be one that will not drawtoo much water and will * take ground safely, whether hardor soft. Nothing to the tired fowler is more unpleasant than T 289 290 THE COMPLETE WILDFOWLER to have to turn in to sleep on a vessel heeling over. The situa-tion besides is also dangerous. Although, in the face of allargument, the steam vessel is admirable for a few days trip toa certain wildfowling quarter, it is not to be compared with asailing craft for lengthy cruises. Yachts which have to bepropped up when aground are useless for wildfowling purposes.They would be a death-trap on a soft shore. Besides, with HOT TO SCALE.
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Sail Plan of Cutter for Fishing and Shooting deep keels, they do not permit the shooter to search up thechannels and lie in the very haunts of the birds. For wild-fowling the craft must have a shallow draught and lie to groundalmost plump. As to the rig, the yawl rig is the most in favourfor this work. The cutter may be faster, but for comfortableworking the yawl is more suitable in our opinion. Really fastsailing is not a necessity when on a wildfowling cruise. How-ever, we give a sail plan of both rigs. The size of a sailingvessel for a wildfowling expedition should be large enough to SAILING CRAFT AND MOTOR-PUNTS 291 carry two punts and a dinghy and a crew of six (including threeshooters) comfortably. Her size should not be so large as tomake her a craft unable to be manoeuvred in fairly shallowwater. About thirty tons, Y.M., is somewhere near the mark.Her cabins should not be numerous and small, as they oftenare, but as few and large as possible. A living and a sleepingcabin, with

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