Canoes, the Poor Man's Yacht | Woodcraft

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Tonight, we’ll read another excerpt from “Woodcraft” published by George Washington Sears, under the pen name "Nessmuk." Sears was a writer and adventurer who penned essays on hunting, fishing, and camping for popular journals and magazines. This chapter is called “Canoeing”. In contemporary times, the author lives on not just through his writing but through his canoe. In fact, one of the most celebrated canoes in American canoeing annals and referred to as “the Nessmuk”. Historic replicas of this canoe can be purchased so that canoeists can paddle in one just like the one commissioned by the author for his famous 1880 Adirondack cruise. This type of craft has come to be generically known as the Adirondack Pack canoe, and is the best way to obtain the smallest, lightest solo recreation paddle craft. Incredibly handy to paddle and transport, the Nessmuk is still known to surprise paddlers with her quickness and seaworthiness. — read by 'N' — Sign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to snoozecast.com/plus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the I'm going to be. Welcome to this newsccast, the podcast designed to help you fall asleep.
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0:45.0	This episode is brought to you by a cheerful blaze.
0:53.4	Tonight, A Cheererful Blaze. Tonight we'll read another excerpt from Woodcraft,
0:58.0	published by George Washington Sears
1:01.3	under the pen name Nesmuck.
1:05.0	Sears was a writer and adventurer who penned essays on hunting, fishing, and camping for popular journals and magazines.
1:16.0	This chapter is called canoeing.
1:18.8	In contemporary times, the author lives on not just through his writing but through his canoe.
1:26.0	In fact, one of the most celebrated canoes and American canoeing annals and referred to as the Nesmuk.
1:37.0	Historic replicas of this canoe can be purchased so that canoeists can paddle in one just like the one commissioned by the author for his famous 1880 Adirondack crews.
1:52.0	This type of craft has come to be generically known as the Adirondack-Pack canoe and is the best way to obtain the smallest, lightest solo recreation paddle craft.
2:06.8	Incredibly handy to paddle and transport,
2:10.1	the Nesmuck is still known to surprise paddlers with her quickness and seeing worthiness. Let's get cozy.
2:25.0	get cozy.
2:27.0	close your eyes.
2:40.0	relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now. Now take a few deep breaths. Chapter 9, canoeing, canoeing, the light canoe and double blade, various canoes for various canoeists,
3:07.0	reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar.
3:19.7	The canoe is coming to the front and canoeing is gaining rapidly in popular favor in spite of the disparaging remark that a canoe is a poor man's yacht.
3:29.0	The canoe editor of Forest and Stream pertinently says, we may as properly call a bicycle the poor man's
3:38.7	express train, but suppose it is the poor man's yacht.
3:45.0	Are we to be debarred from aquatic sports because we are not rich?
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