Evening star., 1938-06-12

THE Navy rated this boat, in its best
days without farmers cabin, at
better than knots an hour. I think
we made about knots, limping in on
the power generating from the under
half of the 2-cylinder pistons.
The next entry in the log, yes we
have a log. too, tells that on the next
day I pumped rs gallons from the
bilge. That was just melted snow and
rain water, We told ourselves. We knew
how much was pumped because the
bilge pump was short and we pumped
into 5-gallon container
We learned that the time to buy a
boat is in the winter. More boats are
bought and sold in the winter than in
the summer All prospective boat own
ers think winter is the slack season
and rush to buy, because, they argue,
the prices go up in the spring In a
way they do, but not because of the
increased demand. In the winter the
boat owner remembers all the troubles
he had last season, and thinks of all
VAC WOIh tAiCAS 10 6oAAls A4to tO1llullS~
sion in the spring. He thinks of the
bill he will owe to the boat yard But
in the spring, somehow, he does the
necessary things, and gets the boat
into the water
He thinks he can get twice as much
for boat in the water as for a boat
on the land. So he takes the old boat
out for trial spin to see if the motor
Is working 1t Is. After that, power
boating fever has its hold on him
again, and he wouldn't sell the boat for
seven times its worth, That is why
prices 60 up in the spring.
We brought our wives down to the
dock to see the boat. We told them it
was dirty, but scrubbing and paint
would remedy that Notice all the
room there is" we said. IF four adults
and four children are to get on the
same boat at one time there has to be
room, and this boat will sell for $3.50
That will leave $50 for repairs and
paint. You can even help us paint,
If you want to-" They agreed to let us
buy the boat Women are the recoe-
nized purchasing power in this coun-
try, aren't they?
A T A two-family conference it was
decided to change the name Of
the boat from Pal to Duggans Dew,
after the Scotch whisky drunk by
Colin Glencannon, chief engineer of
the Inchcliffe Castle, in the stories
by Guy Gilpatrick, appearing in the
Saturday Evening Post. There is al
ready a boat on the Potomac River
named the Glencannon, 50 we couldn't
use that.
BY the definition, ANY pleasure
boat, over 10 feet in length, propelled
by anything other than oars, is q
yacht" our boat is yacht-the yacht
Duggan's Dew. The name is SUPER
huous, because any undocumented
vessel under IS feet in length must
carry number on its bow, but other
people have names on their more
pretentious yachts, 50 we must.
The log is canvas-covered record
book with the words, Log, Yacht
Duggan's Dew" block-lettered in ink,
and the word Record" that was put
there by the binder. is covered. In
time it will carry weather and tide
information, speeds, courses, engine
performance, and experiences. BY
checking data in it, we will be able
to make an educated guess at the
time of arrival of any trip we plan.
Now it records the times one of us
is aboard and the amount of water
we pump from the bilge. We were
just getting SO we could judge the
rate of flow on that, when freezing
weather came along and seemingly
froze the water in the caulking, 20
that our data were upset.