Identifier: outing63newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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some gallant triesto put his arm around her waist. It doesnot squeal, it is true, but it acts just asskittishly as if it did. Of all the float-ing constructions of man, to none is theapplication of the feminine pronoun moreappropriate. Mr. Wells, too, points out the com-parative safety of a canoe, though hedrolly and wisely remarks, The canoe ispretty steady, even allowing a carefulman to stand and cast his fly. But it isno place for a GrEeco-Roman wrestling-match! On the whole I can recommend therule I have laid down for my own daugh-ters, who are all good swimmers andgood canoemen: Never take anybodyinto your canoe who cannot swim. A good deal has been written aboutthe making of canoes with seats, or, as inthe Indian craft, without any. Of course,there can be no doubt that the seatlesscanoe is safer, for it means that its crewmust sit nearer the bottom, and the lowerthe center of gravity, the harder it is tocapsize the craft. But, except in veryrough water or in a blow, or in both,
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LOU HARLOW AT THE END OF HIS STROKE .... - > > • «4 .... A SLIGHT JAR seats have their legitimate place. It isall a matter of judgment and of need. The stern seat of the average moderncanoe is not far from right, though itmight be placed an inch or two lower.The usual front seat is several inches toohigh, though this very height makes cast-ing the fly or paddling much easier forthe average amateur. If there is any-thing more annoying than trying to castor to paddle while squatted upon one ofthose Maine canoe-chairs, I hope I shallnever meet with it. Furthermore, thecanoe-seat in no manner prevents the pad-dler from kneeling down to his heartscontent. In fact, the seat then acts as akind of brace to the back or the buttocks,as the paddler may elect. The question of a keel is an open one.On the one hand a keel (usually only aninch in depth and 2 to Z)/z broad) makesthe canoe a little harder to turn quickly,a disadvantage in running rapids; while,on the other hand, it makes it m

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