. Outing. 674 THE OUTING MAGAZINE and capable of carrying six or sevenpassengers at the rate of twelve or four-teen miles an hour can be purchasedcomplete for about five hundred may have been a boat of not morethan double this price with which Smitharoused the admiration of the landlub-ber who stood on the shore and watchedhim skim by—for a thousand dollarswill purchase a craft which is as at-tractive to look at as a much higher- complicated than the four-cycle type, itis seldom found in the auto boat inhorse powers exceeding twenty. Inhorse powers ranging from one half totwenty, ho
. Outing. 674 THE OUTING MAGAZINE and capable of carrying six or sevenpassengers at the rate of twelve or four-teen miles an hour can be purchasedcomplete for about five hundred may have been a boat of not morethan double this price with which Smitharoused the admiration of the landlub-ber who stood on the shore and watchedhim skim by—for a thousand dollarswill purchase a craft which is as at-tractive to look at as a much higher- complicated than the four-cycle type, itis seldom found in the auto boat inhorse powers exceeding twenty. Inhorse powers ranging from one half totwenty, however, the two-cycle typewill be found in every variety of boat,and it is in these smaller sizes in whichits greatest field of usefulness is is not the desire of the writer tobe drawn into any discussion of the rel-ative merits of these two leading forms. THE HIGH FREEBOARD AND ROOMY CABIN OF THIS TYPE OF CRUISER MAKE IT ANIDEAL ROUGH-WEATHER BOAT. priced boat, and will differ only in sizeand power from the thirty-mile hull design and motor con-struction have brought a boat with aspeed capacity of twenty or more milesan hour within the reach of the manwho has but a thousand dollars to spendfor the purpose. Above this speed theprice increases out of all proportion tothe number of miles per hour instance, a twenty-five-mile boatmay be built and equipped for less thantwo thousand dollars, but a craft ca-pable of attaining thirty miles an hourwould require the expenditure of atleast twelve thousand dollars. While the two-cycle marine motor isexceedingly efficient and reliable in thesmaller powers, and Is at .all times less of marine motors, and for the informa-tion of the novice it may be said, rough-ly, that the trend of design seems tofavor the two-cycle type for the smallpowers, while the racers or heavy boatsre
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