Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 479
dle to meet ones indi-vidual requirements, except to say that the lattershould reach from the ground to about oppositethe paddlers eyes. The ordinary seventeen- or eighteen-foot can-vas canoe in common use in summer camps has aseat near each end, a brace or thwart about twothirds of the length from… … FIGURE I. INCORRECT PADDLING POSITION. bution of weight. It is so located in some ofthe larger guides model canoes. First comes the correct position in the canoe.Always kneel. Ninety-nine out of one hundred canoeists in New England—and New England isthe headquarters of pleasure paddling as it is…
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