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Show Baldwin- D 1162 these pipes cool, circulate the water on the inside of the pipes through the motor, cool the motor, and back through these pipes again; we found that the most successful way of cooling. Q Did you use the river water for that purpose? A We used the river water; dip it up and let it settle, then put it in the motor, so the sand wouldn't cut the pump out; used the same water over and over again. First tried pumping it out of the river, but it wasn't satisfactory because of the mud and stuff in the river, the sand. Q After the big boat was launched, who had charge of the operation of the boat? A My brother, Clarence Baldwin, operated the big boat the first trip, I had made a few trips down the river before that, so they let me go ahead with this small Evinrude boat, to help locate the deepest water. That is the water we got by without quite so much trouble. The first trip we got stuck and didn't even have any anchor with us; in case we broke a chain or anything to hold our boat from drifting away from where we wanted it to go, didn't have any steel cable with us; had some inch Manila line, rope line; undertook to take that to shore; it just carried the rope down stream; we had quite a job getting to the bank; I fell in clear up to my neck. We stuck there for about three hours, I guess, before we got off. 3134 |