Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-24

CAPTAIN ANDREWS. boat was but 10
feet over all, 10 feet on keel feet 6
inches beam, and 2 feet deep. The
voyage proved successful, and after a
trip of forty-ive days they arrived at
their destination. This was the smallest
boat that had ever crossed the ocean.
In 1888 the "sea fever" again took hold
of him, and, although his brother Walter
had died, he determined ON again at
tempting to cross the ocean, this time
alone. in a still smaller boat, and keel
one at that, the Nautilus being a center
board and dory built. The second little
boat he called the Dark Secret. She was
but IS feet over all, 12 feet on keel 8
feet beam and 2 feet 3 inches deep.
After battling for siXty-one days with
rough weather, bad winds, and with
water-logged boat, he determined to
give it up, when about one thousand six
hundred miles, or about halfway across.
He signaled the Norwegian bark Nor,
bound for New York, and was taken
aboard with his boat.
The Mermaid is 10 feet long, 12-foot
keel, 5 feet wide, two feet deep, and
when ready for sea will have foot
draught. She is built of half-inch white
cedar over One-inch oak ribs, sharp at
the cockpit, and without any rail. She
is fat -bottomed with a center board,
and is painted black on top sides, with
copper paint below the water-line,
brown on deck and lead color inboard,
and is decorated with gilt stripe near
the top. She has three thin wooden
bulkheads- one forward of the mast,
one aft of the centerboard and the other
aft of the cockpit. She has absolutely
no alright compartments or cork
Innings.
The cockpit is 6 feet long and 2 feet
wide and will serve as the only cabin
or sleeping apartment. 1t is decked over
2 feet 6 inches, provided with an ingeni-
GUS sliding hatch that will ordinarily
shed the water and still allow good ven
tilation inside. On either side of the
cockpit is a cupboard for general stow
age, and on either side of the center
board a compartment for stores.
Under the floor of the cockpit will be
about 800 pounds of stone ballast. All
the stores will be kept in the boxes, and
the watertanks will be filled with salt
water when empty.
The mast will be 8 feet high above
tine deck; the boom, ~ feet 6 inches
long; gatf 8 feet long; topsail spirit, feet
long; spinnaker boom, II feet long.
She will have mainsail and gafftopsail
combined. foresail or jib, and n spin
maker. A Bakers improved patent oil
compass and hnnacle box is hinged on
thin board midway i'll the cockpit so
as to swing into one of the cupbOards
when not in use, He will also carry an
eight-bell nautical clock.
Captain Andrews has contrived very
ingenious device for righting his boat
should she happen to capsize. 1t con-
sists of an ordinary piece Of steam pipe,
which runs clear through the boat on
the port side of the standing room. 1t
projects about a foot above the gun
vale, and is used as a brace in heavy
weather.
II also sticks out of the bottom, and if
the boat should capsize it would serve
as first-class lever to right her again.
Beside the centerboard the boat has
two bilge keels and a barrel. She will
be far more seaworthy boat than the
Dark Secret
Captain Lawlor's Career.
Josiah Warren Lawlor was born in
Chelsea, Mass, in 1854, and is a son OF
the veteran naval archetect. ID. j. Law
lor. He has had a most adventurous
and romantic life. He was, when
child, passionately fond of water, and Is
to this day.
Captain Lawlor has been to New Zea-
land. China, Australia, around the Cape
Of Good Hope four times and around
Cape Horn four times. He has been
mate of a ship and skipper of foro-and-
aft vessels, rs well rs being boat-keeper
ON pilot boats for many years.
His boat bears the striking yet appro-
pirate, name of Sea Serpent. She is
PAINTED white. with gilt trimmings ON