The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-04-03
BIG TIME AT LAKE WEIR

and Woodm2r, was launched Monady
on Lake Weir. The Chicago is a "a
foot boat, with beam of feet 4 inch
es. and will carry fifteen passengers
comfortably in chairs. The knock
down frame was purchased from the
outing Boat Company, Kankakee, H.,
and is the 1908 transOm stern pattern,
and the largest launch built by that
company. The transom stern model
is rapidly displacing the old fantail
patterns and the torpedo and COM
promise stems. In this model the
stern lies on top of the water, thus
giving the propeller a solid body of
water in which to work and thus ad-
ding greatly to the buOyancy of the
boat.
The frame reached Eastlake about
two months ago, a day before Mr.
Goodwin arrived. He had planned to
have it in the water before his arriv-
al, but he delayed his order until af-
ter the Chicago motor boat show, at
which he studied carefully all boats
on exhibition, and made final selec-
ton of the Outing model This show
also enabled him to See the latest
things in motOr-boat fittings. The
Chicago has been built by Robert l.
FOsnOt, in the completely equipped
bodybuilding shop of Captain Fosnot
at Eastlake, and in this work Mr.. Eos
not has had the benefit of the coun-
sci Of Mr.. ]. G. Lege, who in his
younger days acquired a thorough I'M
Outstanding of shipbuilding in Charles
ton harbor. Mr.. Lege spent many
hours of work on the boat and it was
put together and finished under the
personal direction of Mr.. Goodwin
The general order was that the Chi
cago should be built as staunchly as
it was possible for a boat to be made.
The copper nails sent by the Outing
Company for the planking were dis.
carded, and clinch copper nails and
copper rivets were used for fasten-
ings. No boat ever carried a greater
amount of copper fastenings into the
water. Every detail in its cOnstruc.
ton has been carried out with the
greatest thOroughness by Mr.. FOsnot,
and the completed boat is a splendid
tribute to his superior skill as a me-
chanic Much of the delay in the
building of the boat has been caused
by the painstaking care devoted to ev-
cry little detail of it's construction
Fittings have been ordered by wire
from Boston, Jacksonville and Tampa,
but the Marion Hardware Company
and the Ocala Wagon Works have
been able to supply the greater part
of the material needed in the construc-
ton.
The Chicago is equipped with two
cylinder, S-hOrse power gasolene en-
CINE, made by the Cushman Com
pany at Lincoln, Neb. II is one Of the
best and highest priced marine motors
on the market, and is rated to drive
this 24-foOt launch at about twelve
miles an hour. The engine is decked
under the bow, and is controlled by
automobile controls. This is the lat
est development in gasolene launches,
and two or three of this pattern were
on view at the Chicago show. 1t puts
the motor out of the way and re-
moves the danger and unpleasant fea-
lures of an engine in the cockpit. The
muller is under the stern deck, So that
the noise and disagreeable odors of
the exhaust are left behind. The
launch is equipped with a whistle and
acetylene headlights and a heavy an
Choir is carried.
The Chicago is the largest, staunch-
est and speediest launch on Lake
Weir. Much interest has been mani
tested in its building and the boat
house has had many visitors from all
around the lake during its construc-
ton. A large company witnessed it's
launching on Monday.
This boat is too large and too good
20 lie out of water for ten months in
the year, and understanding how the
use of such a launch would add to the
pleasure of jewellers on and visitors
to the lake, Mr.. Goodwin offered to sell
a half interest in it to Mr.. D. S. Wood
row, and the offer was promptly &C
cepted. a boathouse will be built at
the Blair Villa dock adjoining Wood
mar. and the Chicago will be in charge
of Robert FOsnot. Its use can be Sc
cured from Mr.. Woodrow for accepta-
bic parties when it is not needed by
either of its owners. Those who visit
beautiful Lake Weir will learn with
pleasure of this public-spirited ar
rangement, which is in line with the
efforts of Mr. Woodrow for the devel-
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