TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Hundred Year History of Cruising Class Sailing
2. The Demise of the 16x30 Decked Sailing Canoe (The Beginning of the IC—10M Class)
3. The History of Sugar Island
4. How to Put a Sail on Your Canoe
5. A Brief History of Canoe Sailing in N. America

STORIES OF CANOES

1. GASNO GAO — Aticamec Birch Bark Canoe
2. Mystic — 1910 Peterborough Championship Cruising Class Canoe
3. Undine IV — 1935 Willetts Championship Cruising Class Canoe
4. Osprey — 1978 Strip Built Championship Cruising Class Canoe
5. Falcon — 1953 Manana Decked Sailing Canoe
6. Indian Girl — Ruston Canvas Canoe, Circa 1912
7. Sebago Canoe Club Four Boat — Dean, Circa 1939

A series of stories of activities in the American Canoe Association. Backed up by Newspaper and magazine articles and official records, Larry goes back to 1857 for background material from the United States, Canada and England.

Tom Zuk entered the activities when he joined the ACA in 1909 and had a remarkable career as a National Champion paddling and sailing racer, cruiser, coach and lover of Sugar Island. He also served as National Measurer and Keeper of Records for sailing, Commodore of the ACA, Member of the Olympic Canoeing Committee and Member of the US Olympic Committee.

Larry Zuk entered these stories when he arrived at Sugar Island in 1923 as the youngest baby ever on the Island, and exits from these stories, (but not from canoeing) by going to Sugar Island over an 89 year period, and going in a canoe sailing race in 2011. Cancellation of some races due to Hurricane Irene cut short his 78 year racing career. He won races as a boy in Olympic style paddling with both single and double blade, was the first National Slalom Champion in one man Kayak, and two men in a Canoe and a man and a woman in a canoe, and won Canoe Sailing races from 1936, for 75 years, through 1910.

Larry also was an official of the ACA as Measurer, Member of the Board of Directors, National Commodore, and representative to both the International Canoe Federation, Slalom and Sailing Committees.

Other Family members, such as his wife and paddling partner, Paula Zuk, National Slalom Champion; and his daughter, Erica, paddling partner and kayak racer on her own; brother Tom Jr., sailor; his Mother, Grace, canoe cruiser, racer, sailor, camper and renowned cook.

There are not only descriptions of the canoes donated to the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, NY, near Sugar Island, but also stories of how they were built and used, by whom, and what adventures they had.