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• 't . . • f•. Roy adn his father are carpenters - in .this city residing.:**•After the season’s work is over, -which :jv. will he some time in the fall, the tril V Y‘-will start and all of tho winter months: ^ will be spent In tho cruise to the gulf■ ' ■ * i * * ‘as they do not intend to return spring, when carpenter work ~fa this ‘Y city is good. However, the return '/V trip will be made by rail, as there is a ready market in the South for good ;? f boats along the Mississippi river andr yv it is their Intention to sell the cruiser* : Eighteen months ago Roy made % model of the cruiser, using a one inch -’ • c{ scale. After the model was complet-:v.; ed he drew the plans for the cablav^ cruiser in which the trip will be made* ;-;-; The work was started shortly afteK vY- v ward, Roy and his father using, only.:/ ;;, spare time to work on the craft.-The :boat is thirty-flve feet long, eight amf .:; - ^ a half feet wide and has a three foot;-.-'; draft. There is a main cabin, darkYv': room for developing pictures and atr/j -fj uncovered deck. The boat weighs ?about sixteen hundred pounds anti,; will run at the rate of sixteen miles '\'y. an hour. The keel and frames are:' y, made of white oak and the planking..-v. is of cypress. A gasoline engine wlil '.-Y? furnish the power. In the cabin* there' are four bunks,' toilet and place' for V stove. The interior is beautifully • V; decorated with fancy woods and paint-ed panels. Electric lights will be used*.;' The size of the uncovered deck' is :;Y. \ seven by eight feet. An eleven-lOo?: ..:l row boat will be carried. The boatY;:V equipped, not counting the labor, will w cost over $1,000. ‘ ' \:£m'
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Shelbyville Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Mon, Apr 13, 1914
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