On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:00:28 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:15:54 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

In
fact I believe that The Spray was about 40 ft. and Old Josh had no
labor saving devices. Just him and the boat.

Twenty eight foot Friendship Sloop.

Casady

Bruce is closer to correct. Sorry Casady, but Spray was nowhere near
the lines of a Friendswhip.


From Slocum's book:

"The Spray's dimensions were, when finished, thirty-six feet nine
inches long, over all, fourteen feet two inches wide, and four feet
two inches deep in the hold, her onnage being nine tons net and twelve
and seventy-one hundredths tons gross."

"The Spray, as I sailed her, was entirely a new boat, built over from
a sloop which bore the same name, and which, tradition said, had first
served as an oysterman, about a hundred years ago, on the coast of
Delaware. There was no record in the custom-house of where she was
built."


"In a sloop-rig the Spray made that part of her voyage reaching from
Boston through the Strait of Magellan, during which she experienced
the greatest variety of weather conditions. The yawl-rig then adopted
was an improvement only in that it reduced the size of a rather heavy
mainsail and slightly improved her steering qualities on the wind."


Rick