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Show Another boat was known 308 as the Black ( hoat boat ) and another the Evinrude ( hoat boat ) , which was about ( eight eight- eight ) ( een ecii ) feet ( long loing ) , probably three and ( one-half onehalf ) or four feet wide , round bottom , and drew ten inches of water . The Evinrude motor was hinged on the boat so that it could be set at an angle with the boat or straight down . If the ( propeller propellor ) struck an ( ob- ob ) stacle the pin ( would Nvould ) break , the motor being rigidly set . The passenger boat had a gear shift but only high and reverse were used . ( R . ( 1155-1157 110-5-1157 ) . ) Could not use that gear shift to plow through the sand ; just left it in high gear all the time because got better results . ( R . 1158 . ) The big boat was about ( seventy-five seventyfive ) feet long , fourteen or fifteen feet wide , constructed of heavy material , the sides being ( three-inch threeinch ) plank and the bottom double planked and callied with oakum . It was built very heavy so as to withstand the racket . At first it had a ( square-end squareend ) front , afterward a pointed bow was put on , this being necessary in order to part the water better . It was first equipped with an automobile engine and then with a ( Walkushaw Walhushaw ) motor and a new paddle wheel . The Evinrude boat was a keel boat but the others were all ( flat-bottomed flatbottomed ) . The large ( flat-bottomed flatbottomed ) boat was built in ( Febru Febru- Febru ) ary 1925 . ( R 1158-1159 . ) He helped build the paddle wheel and installed the motor on the big boat . The wheel was eight feet high , twelve feet across , and had twelve ( pad- pad ) |