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FLEET LOOKINGIN EVERY LINEThousands See the Puritanat Gloucesterlt;GLOU CTC ST K R, March 28—The n e w, schooner Puritan, moored at Chisholm’s Wharf, is being visited by thousands, and without dissent the opinion is that* the craft that can take her measure will know she has been in a race, although this is universally qualified by the statement of those who have, seen Capt Clayton Morrissey’s Henry Ford, on the stocks at Essex, that the latter will be a worthy competitor, and a contest between the two would resolve into a question of which boat is the better handled.The masts and topmasts, standing and \ running rigging are in place in the Punter and the mainboom has been put in position. ITer spars are universally commended, spick and span with varnish they take the eye of a nautical man. The mainboom is an especially handsome stick in wood and design.She is fleet looking in every line—a “long narrow rakish” craft like a thoroughbred marine greyhound. Some of the critical say she is rather long sparred but others do not think so. She will swing quite a bit of canvas, a 11 Me less than the Mayflower.Yesterday the workmen wrere fastening the gurry kids on deck and the latter part of the week the sails will be beTlt and the ice and provisions taken aboard.All this preparation is under then watchful eye of her commander, Capt I ^ Jeffrey Thomas, who expects to get 4 ‘awa} for the halibut grounds next week. *He intends to study every mood and j j. whim of the craft and to And out the t trim under which she will develop the .most speed, so that when she comes to Ithe mark in the preliminary race for j , the honor of challenging for the inter-I* national fisherman’s cup she will be at the peak of condition.
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Boston Evening Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Mar 28, 1922
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