ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN AN OPEN BOAT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 7, 12 June 1896, Page 29

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN AN OPEN BOAT.

Pbepakations are now well under way for what is said to be the most daring attempt that has ever been made to cross the Atlantio in an open boat. George Harbo, New York pilot, fisherman and seaman from his earliest youth, proposes to row from New York to England, using an ordinary rowboat, built after plans designed by himself, and intended to show the improvements which he claims oan be made in the lifeboats now in use. No sailing will be done npon this extraordinary trip. Harbo says he will pull out into the Atlantic with a companion about the middle of June, and that they will simply row on to Europe, Tbe trip is to be made in June* The boat, which is being specially built for it is eighteen feet long with a five foot be»m. Sbe is clinker built, of cedar, with oak timbers, and weighs 2001bs, drawing when light but three ioches of water. The oad which is to be put into her. however, will increase her draught to seven inches. Bach man in very rough weather is to be lashed at the end of a loDg line, tied about bis waist, which will bold him to the boat when he is swept overboard, which Harbo expects will occur as a matter of course. Harbo is thirty two years of age. — Exchange.