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Identifier: outing55newy (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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THE MAJORITY OF BOATS UNDER FORTY FEET IN LENGTH CAN BE CONTROLLED EASILY BY ONE MAN. little cause for annoyance. Such a boatwill probably be about fourteen feetlong with the motor located in the sternand an arrangement for steering withineasy reach of the engineer. A couple of cross seats forward fur-nish accommodations for two or threepassengers, while space is supplied fortools, camping utensils, oilskins, andthe like under the seats. With a fewgallons of gasoline in the tank, strongbatteries for the motor, and a sufficientknowledge of the waterway to keep ofrthe rocks and shoals, an entire day maybe spent on the water and many milescovered with no probability of a mishapor trouble of any kind with the engine. Boats of this style are manufacturedwith the ordinary wooden hull, or witha hull of steel, according to the typepurchased. The former are too wellknown to require comment here, butthe latter, too, are becoming exceeding-ly popular with the man who desires acraft in which he c

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