Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-26
49, UP-WRBoR TOWARDS THE HNcHoRHGt
APlTALlAcHTCLuB PoMERCRUIsERs


organized, with headquarters near the
Anacostia bridge.
The High Island Canoe Club will be
represented by a crack nine in the Boat
ing League this summer.
| Members of the Potomac Gun and
Fishing Club who own boats are pushing
work on their craft in anticipation Of
the April perch run.
The st. Charles. the largest boat in the
feet. will go into commission today.
4 ~
The Washington Canoe Club minstrel
| show will not be given at a local theater
as heretofore, because of the impossible
ity OF securing regular playhouse for
the performance during May.
| Il X *
There are over 200 canoes on the racks
at the paddle club and these canvas
craft represent only about .one-fifth of
! the total number of similar boats in the
| District
Directions for properly painting and
vanishing boat may be a time-worn
subject to the old hand who has been
doing all the work on his water wagon
| for the last seven or eight years, but for
the benefit of the greenhorn who wants
| to WELD paint brush this spring and
get the results that said old shellback
| usually achieves, the following hints are
| exhumed:
Probably yours is a new boat one just
completed and standing on the ways look
ing bare and naked save for the zebra
effect of seam painting, or else a craft
| that has been burned Off, down to the
bare wood for the first time in years
Dose: One thin printing coat, allowed to
n pvy fH0A rrr1l F1ly -
four thin coats, each of which should also
be allowed to harden before another is
| applied The general idea among the
uninitiated is that two coats, spread on
rather thickly Is the correct dope in
decorating the freeboard of a boat, but
the fact Is that a greater number of coats
of thin pigment give the better results.
III the final application is intended to
give a dull surface, the following formula
! should be used: Raw linseed oil, one
quart; half gallon turpentine, twenty five
pounds white lead and about One-half
pint OF dryers. This should make enough
to paint thirty-footer, according to d.
rections.
Some boating men prefer a glossy sur
face. and this can be obtained by mixing
Light spar varnish with white lead and
| thinning with ''turps.' but the amateur
can always obtain good quality of
ready mixed paint, either dull or glossy,
so it would be best to thus avoid the
trouble of mixing your own materials.
When applying paint to boat that
has been painted before be sure that the
surface is clean and absolutely smooth.
A splendid method of taking down" old
paint to a glass-like surface is by rub
bling down from stem to stern with
piece Of coarse sandpaper tackled to a
large block OF wood.
Before bottom paints are applied all
ironwork below the water line should be
given q coat OF red lead. Ready mixed
copper Or bronze paints are the. only
LII Ind IN op-yxyof ,,.
! unless the craft is to be kept in fresh
water all summer.
| 1t is all very well to talk of scraping
masts, spars and other round vanished
| fiat place. such as deck or coamings, an
acid remover Is necessary.
| There are a good many varieties Of
varnish remover on the market. some
different; SO. in view Of the fact that
we cannot advertise the best in these COL
umns. simple formula may be given
that will do the work of the most ex-
pensive ready-prepared acid:
Ten cents worth of oxalic acid dis
solved in as much water as will hold it
and applied to the old varnish with a
| brush will soften the last seasons coat
SO that 1t may be easily removed with
a scraper. But be very careful that no
water touches the bare wood after the
varnish has been burned of, else black
stains will result. SO it is best to get the
frSt new coat on as soon as possible.
This printing coat should be we'll rubbed
down with curled hair or fine sandpaper
before the two final coats are applied.
Shellac could hardly be improved upon
as q ground coat, as it dries quickly and
thereby keeps the wood In good shape
until the varnish can be slapped on.
X
If the American representative captures
the international trophy for speed boats
! at the Monaco races this summer Alex
andria will rank side by side with Bris-
| toll, r. l.. and Cowes, England, as the
home of skilled yacht designers. There
are at present building at a shipyard in
the little town downstream four inter-
national cup defenders, all Of which will
be required to make over forty miles per
hour before they are turned over to their
owners for entry trials. Two boats,
equipped with 3O0-horsepoWer engines.
| turning twin screws, will have to exceed
| fifty miles per hour before being accepted.
and Stuart Blackton, vice commodore OF
the New York Yacht Club. will be the
owner of one II this phenomenal speed
is attained when the craft Is given q
tryout on the Potomac. The cost of this
outfit will be over $4,000. One boat.
forty miller. was given q trial on the local
government course last week, and, though
| her exact speed was not given out, 1t Is
known that she exceeded every record
| ever made on the water by an out-and-
| out boat, and not a cross between
hydroplane and an aeroplane which has
touched the fifty-mile mark.