Just about a year ago at this time, all slicked up and resting quietly in its crate was a nifty little 21/2 h.p. Lockwood-Ash motor which a prize article had previously helped me obtain. Knowing how eager the little putter would be to commence its chug-chug with the advance of spring days, I began to feel as if it was time to get busy and build another little boat if its young hopes were to be realized. While the war was not over at that time, yet I realized that after it did end boating would come back stronger than ever so I laid plans accordingly. As a primary step I began to make sketches and what I had in mind was a neat, stiff little boat, easy and inexpensive to build, capable of carrying a party of three or four people and to be used solely for week-end fishing trips on a good sized open lake. It was a howling cold Saturday night when the final lines were sketched out on paper but with the appearance of those promised nice warm days Jingo was complete in every detail and ready to take on gas and oil. After a successful launching and a summer of continuous use in all kinds of weather on fishing trips lasting from daylight until dark (and well nigh midnight On one or two occasions) I had ample opportunity to test the little outfit thoroughly and it was certainly with reluctance that I gave up to November’s chilling winds and hauled her out. Fur the man who already owns a summer cottage at the beach or the chap lucky enough to possess a camp beside the shore of an inland lake a little boat of the Jingo type is just the craft. Whether it be a clamming trip to a certain distant point way up the beach, a flshing excursion for bass or perch way down in the favorite cove, or a berrying party to the hillside just up the shore, to Jingo it’s all the same, it will take you safely there, then bring you back. Then, too, it is just the kind of craft a couple of kids delight in tinkering about and keeping shipshape.
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