Cabin Island

 This is basically the Hardy Boys at Christmas. A trip out to the deserted Cabin Island by way of a gift from Elroy Jefferson, thanks to them recovering his car in the Shore Road Mystery.

As this is the UK and that was 16 books previously rather than a subsequent issue its a rather belated gift. Anyway it's not a bad book, they camp out on the island and have to deal with ghosts and look for not only Elroy's grandson Johnny but also a bunch of medals stolen by a former employee John Sparewell.

The main gimmick this time is ice-yachts, a flat beamed craft used for skimming over the ice of a frozen bay. Which begs to differ, how cold does Bayport get. Is it Midwest states cold I.E. 30 below C in winter or more like New York which I gather is more minus 5 or so.

You'll get two versions this time. The original is a PDF file culled from archive.org, so its a bit bigger than the usual small plain text PDF scan you are used to.   Ignore this we have sourced and scanned our own copy and its a normal sized PDF.

The UK text was hand typed as for most of the time my scanner refused to work, due to it requiring new ink. Yes that is a thing.

There are few differences between the two texts, in the original the boys are give rifles for Christmas with the explicit instructions to not shoot too many rabbits. I'm pretty sure it was mackinaw shirts and boots in the remake.

Also Chet is outed as someone who is all mouth and no trousers (he didn't worry against squaring off against bigger lads as long as someone was with him), as the boys face off against Ike & Tad, a pair of delinquent youths and owners of the Hawk, a rival ice yacht to the Hardy's Seagull.

UK remake here. Proper original here.

Edit. Those rifles they got for Xmas, basically are used for signalling and killing foxes.