Picking Up In Rough Water
by John L. Peyton
These guys have finished hunting and now they have to pick up the decoys. The wind has come up and is blowing so hard that one man can’t hold the canoe against it. So they must paddle together against the waves, then turn and come tearing back with the wind behind them. The stern man steers while the bow man tries to snatch a decoy or two on each passage. Or three if you can, but you’re just as likely to get none. There’s no way to slow the down-wind rush, so it’s easy to miss a tossing decoy and you don’t get a second chance until the next round. Going back upwind you get soaked with spray, especially the bow man. It’s the meanest little job on a duck-hunting trip, but it has to be done. This picture was painted as a cover for a hunting and fishing magazine. Actually, the person in the bow of my canoe has usually been my wife, but it would have been unheard of to show a woman in that posture in a sporting magazine of those days. I never got around to sending it in anyway, so I could just as well have put Fay where she really was.
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Picking Up In Rough Water
by John L. Peyton
These guys have finished hunting and now they have to pick up the decoys. The wind has come up and is blowing so hard that one man can’t hold the canoe against it. So they must paddle together against the waves, then turn and come tearing back with the wind behind them. The stern man steers while the bow man tries to snatch a decoy or two on each passage. Or three if you can, but you’re just as likely to get none. There’s no way to slow the down-wind rush, so it’s easy to miss a tossing decoy and you don’t get a second chance until the next round. Going back upwind you get soaked with spray, especially the bow man. It’s the meanest little job on a duck-hunting trip, but it has to be done. This picture was painted as a cover for a hunting and fishing magazine. Actually, the person in the bow of my canoe has usually been my wife, but it would have been unheard of to show a woman in that posture in a sporting magazine of those days. I never got around to sending it in anyway, so I could just as well have put Fay where she really was.
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