prevent it from drifting to leeward, and they serve to
take the place of a keel or centerboard."

[Illustration: Fig. 121. A Lee Board.]

[Illustration: Fig. 122. Section of the Canoe, Showing Lee Board.]

[Illustration: Fig. 123. The Lee Boards in Use on Canoe.]

Following Uncle Ed's direction we fastened a strip of wood across the
canoe about six feet from the bow, nailing it firmly to the gunwales.
This provided a support to which the lee boards were secured. The lee
boards were paddle-shaped affairs of the form and dimensions shown in
Fig. 121. Each paddle near the top was hinged to the end of a board
three inches wide and a foot long. The paddle was held at right angles
to the board by means of a hook. Each board was fastened with door
hinges to a baseboard which extended the width of the boat and was
attached to the crosspiece of the canoe by means of a couple of bolts.
The bolt heads were countersunk, so that the hinged boards could lie
flat over them. To the top of each lee board two ropes were attached,
one passing forward around a pulley and thence back to a cleat within
easy reach of the occupant of the canoe, and the other passing directly
back to this cleat. By pulling the former rope the lee board was lifted
out of the water, while the latter rope was used to swing the board into
working position. When tacking to port (left), the board on the left
side of the canoe was lowered and the other was raised, as shown in Fig.
123, and when tacking to the starboard (right) the board on the right
side was lowered, while the left one was raised.

[Illustration: The Indian Canoe Fitted with Lanteen Sail and Lee Boards.]

THE INDIAN PADDLING CANOE.

[Illustration: Fig. 124. Center Form.]

[Illustration: Fig. 125. Intermediate Form.]

[Illustration: Fig. 126. The Stem Piece.]

[Illustration: Fig. 127. Skeleton Frame of Canoe.]

[Illustration: Fig. 128. Section at Center of Canoe.]

Our sailing canoe proved such a good one that we decided to build a
second. This was to be much lighter, for paddling only, and of the true
Indian shape, with wide, bulging sides and raised stem and stern. The
dimension of the forms used are given in Figs. 124 and 125. These forms,
it will be observed, were notched to receive the keelson and gunwales.
The keelson was formed of 1-inch spruce 3 inches wide and 10 feet long.
The stem and stern, which were both of the same shape, were cut from a
12-inch board to the form shown in