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Show Record We had less trouble with that than any of them. I happened to hit the sand bar with the " Punkin Seed" when I was held up for ten minutes, because I missed the channel a little bit. There was a channel there and if I had followed it I would not have been delayed even that ten minutes. Any time I was delayed as much as ten minutes on the Black boat, the occasions for it was missing the channel. 5012- When operating right along we would hardly ever have any trouble at all with the Black boat or the Punkin Seed. Time after time we would go and never touch anything. During the six or seven months that we operated these boats and the 16 months that we operated the last boat I spoke of, we would make one to four round trips a week. In operating the Chandler boat during the 16 months I never had any serious difficulties in the way of sand bars or obstructions to navigation. Aside from burning out a bearing on 5013 the Chandler, the longest time I recall being delayed or held up on account of sand bars or other obstructions to navigation was not over thirty minutes. There were only three or four times that I was delayed as much as thirty minutes from any cause besides the time I burned out the bearing. While operating the Chandler, I would get on a sand bar for a minute or two, or five minutes, on one trip out of ten. Would generally get right off and go on. In operating the Punkin Seed or the Black boat the percentage of trips when I would encounter difficulty was less than when 5014 I was operating the Chandler. I would say that a conservative number of round trips that I made while operating the three boats I have mentioned would be one hundred during all months of the year. My company also had a barge and that is the large boat show in Exhibit 22. The party shown on the large barge was the 5015 Federated Clubs of the State Ladies' Clubs. Aside from the Punkin Seed, the Black boat, the Chandler and the big barge, we had three out- board motor boats, |