STRANGE CRAFT
GOSPEL BARQUENTINE BUILDER’S CRUDE TOOLS TEXTS ON EVERY TIMBER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. One of ;ho strangest craft an jiimi tour boalbuilde.r lias ever planned is nearing completion on the banks of the \\ r ade River. Bhe is the Gospel ship Ysahel, 41ft. long, rigged as-a baiquentine, constructed out of woods obtained in the bush, and cut and shaped with axe, saw, ,and plane, and a chisel made Out of an old file. Her builder, Mr L. Beavis, measured everything by the span of the fingers. Keeping the Bible handy while he worked, Mr Beavis lvas written or cut on every timber in the craft a text from the Gospel, and the figure-head represents an angel holding an open .Bible.
In rigging the yacht, he intends to follow the plan of the original Ysabel, which before she 'became an island trader was the Melanesian Mission ship Southern -Cross. For auxiliary po-wer he intends to install hand-propelling .gear of his own design. Mr Beavis will sail the craft singlehanded. He proposes to compete in the trans-Tasman race, and then make his wav to Palestine to witness the fulfilment of Biblical prophecies, which he believes to-be impending.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18180, 30 August 1933, Page 8
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