Show how to make canoe for one dollar got get two tao strong boxes from a grocery store elore about two feet by three feet in alzo and nail them endwise as in rig I 1 then nail two boards about tour four feet long across underneath the boxes as shown in tho the sketch birst see bee that your boxes are as near witter water tight as you can get them ind and make them so BO by caulking up all cranks with oakum soaked in tar or fill up all cracks mith putty A good plan would be to cover the m whole hole hot torn tom and sides with canvas and tar it over and lacking inching tar paint it now procure two wooden coal oil cases C C rig 2 with two sound bound empty coal oil cans in each paint or tar heso hese cans outside and see that they ire airtight nail the wooden cases on to the boards r F r and also to the boxes A B as aa shown in fig 2 go ov over all the boxes mith a ath more nails malls so BO hat bat they can t come apart with rough candling you can also wrap tho the securely together with galvan zed alre ire or balling wire tar or mint the whole outside of the four place a seat beat across the boxes at 0 t I 1 git gi t four springy boards II if 11 II n he b ig 3 and nail rutilde these theae lorei the ends to n i point at each end B s shown shon in rig 4 the ends can call bo be girther iirth er secured sec tired ba railing sheet tin across the he points as shown by br K in tik 3 2 they can also be nailed to two boards board A A and further secured by wire threaded through tho the boards at 13 1 alff ig 4 now ou oil have a boat or canoe as shown n in fig 4 but the only water tight portions for the occupant aro are the two boxes 4 D the air in the empty oil cans will mill make the ft whole hole so buoyant that it cannot sink it if mole moie buoyancy Is required two or four more air tight cans can be secured in the spaces D D or G U 11 or dry boxes can be put in there to contain articles needed probably one or two more oil cans at D may be found very desirable of course it if you can cover the whole underneath part of 0 the canoe with mith canvas and tar it over and thus keep out the water from the partitions D D and I 1 n B U the boat will travel faster the boat will float when completed up to the stage shown shoun in ilg 2 forming a raft but the addition of the boards 11 II 11 II to cleave the water will ill make it much more like a boat this Is not in any way intended to compare with a purchased boat or canoe it la Is simply a cheap homemade article that any boy living on a take lake or river or the sea can mice mace for himself at the cost of about 1 I 00 and his bis parents need haip little fear of accidents as it cannot sink so BO long lonar as the empty oil cans ars kept air tight montreal Alon treal herald al |