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CAPTAIN JOSHUA SLOCUM (384 pp.)-Victor Slocum-Sheridan House...
Nobody else wanted the old sloop; for years she had been propped up and rotting away in a meadow not far from salt water. But lean, grizzle-bearded Captain Joshua Slocum desperately wanted the 36-footer, and he got her. By the time he had put in a year's work rebuilding the Spray into a staunch, well-found craft, he was ready to put to sea. One spring day in 1895, with only Slocum aboard, the Spray sailed out of Boston harbor on what turned out to be a 46,000-mile voyage. At 51, Joshua Slocum...
Louis McCagg will be at stroke, George Gifford at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steven Hedberg at five, Clem Despard at four, Bill Bliss at three, Doug Fletcher at two, and Bob Webb in the bow. The coxswain is Warren Clark...
Webb, bow; Fletcher, 2; Bliss, 3; Despard, 4; Hedberg, 5; Slocum, 6; Gifferd, 7; McCagg, stroke; Clarke, coxswain...
...most probable boating for today is : Louis McCagg, stroke, George Gifford, at number seven oar, Jim Slocum at six, Steve Hedberg at five, number four oar in doubt, Bill Bliss at three, Jack Avis at two, and Bill Engstrom in the bow. Warren Clark is the coxswain...