News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
A PERILOUS VOYAGE.
A Projected Trip Around the World In
DOry.

BATH, Me.-Nearly two years ago
John Traynor, a sailor, started In dory
from this city to row across the Atlantic.
The boat, which was ID feet long, was
furnished and equipped for the voyage
by DR.. r. D. Bibber, of this city, at a
cost of nearly $780, Since the unsuc-
cessful attempt of Traynor, who is sup
posed to have been lost, as nothing has
been. heard from him since leaving New
foundland, where he put in for repsrs
from collision with a schooner, DR.
Blbber has received many offers from
seatarlng men to row across if the doc
tor will furnish and equip the boat
None, however, appeared to him in per-
son until yesterday afternoon, when a
stout, we'll built man walked into the
doctors Office. He informed the doctor
that his name was Richard Chandler,
and that his native place was Northamp-
ton, Mass, where he was born on Sept
%, 1910. Chandler said he had made
up his mind to row across the ocean
provided boat of the same class and
equipment as the one in which Traynor
made the attempt could be furnished
him. 81 have been in a dory since |
was 10 years old, said Chandler, land
what don't know about that class of
boats ain worth knowing. have f 1t
great interest in the attempts that
have been made, and firmly believe that
can make the trip"
Crossing the Atlantic is only small
part of the voyage" said the doctor
"After arriving in England you are to
go by water to Norway and Sweden,
thence to France, Spain, and the Medi-
terranean; across the Red Sea, through
the Suez Canal, across the Indian Ocean
and Southern Pacific to Australia; thence
to Japan and China, and from there by
steamer to San Francisco, then overland
to the Mississippi, where the dory will
be put into the water for you 10 row
down that river to the Gulf, and around
but believe with the right boat and
man it can be accomplished
81 feel like trying it, said Chandler.
"For the past seven years / have been
thinking of making the attempt to row
boat across the Atlantic, and | have
come here to enter into an agreement
with YOU Furnish the boat and / am
your man."
Chandler was told that it would be
done. The date of departure has not
been decided upon. The doctor IS of
opinion that it is rather late in the
season to make the boat this year.
Chandler, who is a single man, is anx-
ious to start at once, and said if he had
a suitable boat he would start to morrow.
He seems bent on going over the route laid
out by the doctor. Chandler was
seen at his boarding house to day. He
said the necessary arrangements were
nearly perfected for the trip, and be-
lieved he would be ready to start on the
perilous voyage in about two weeks.
The boat in which Chandler is to cross
will be - feet long at the bottom, with
about IA feet gunwale She is to have
watertight compartments built forward
and aft. The only open space in her
will be a cockpit in the centre. In
width she will be feet and in depth 30
inches Besides large supply of food,
she is to be fitted with life suits, cork
pickets, life lines, Boynton rubber
suit, and everything that can comfort
the voyager. John Williams, of George
town, who built the dory Harold T.
Bibber, in which Traynor sailed, will
build the new boat for Chandler She
is to be similar in build to that dory.
Chambers trip from Provincetown to
this port was made in leakv dory, and
when off Seguin he came near going
down. A heavy sea striking her started
her to leaking very badly. When he
reached the island she was nearly full of
water. Chandler says that he has no
bad habits and uses no tobacco or intox-
icating liquors.