One of the many theories for the boat's disappearance suggested that her internal ballast may have shifted in a severe knock-down and thus unbalanced her. Chapelle, curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution and a noted expert on small sailing craft, demonstrated that Spray was stable under most circumstances, but could capsize under some conditions. In 1901 Spray was an attraction at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. In Port Angosto, Strait of Magellan, Spray was re-rigged as a yawl by adding a jigger. Īfter setting off around the world in 1895, the boom was shortened after it broke and in 1896 Slocum reduced the height of the mast by 7 feet and the length of the bowsprit by 5 feet while in Buenos Aires. The materials used for the repairs cost $553.62, equivalent to $16,697 in 2021. Slocum came to Fairhaven to look at Spray, and he undertook to repair and refit it over the next thirteen months. Its days as a fishing boat, probably as a Chesapeake Bay oysterman, had come to an end by 1885, and it was a derelict, a slowly deteriorating hulk sitting in a makeshift ship's cradle in a seaside meadow on Poverty Point in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, when Captain Pierce of that town offered it to Joshua Slocum as a gift.
Despite the major overhaul of the ship, Slocum kept her name Spray, noting, "Now, it is a law in Lloyd's that the Jane repaired all out of the old until she is entirely new is still the Jane." Slocum went to Fairhaven, Massachusetts to find that the "ship" was a rotting old oyster sloop named Spray, propped up in a field. In 1892, Captain Ebenezer Pierce, offered Slocum a ship that "wants some repairs". JSTOR ( June 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Spray" sailing vessel – news Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. He was never heard from again and no trace of the Spray was ever found. On November 14, 1909, Slocum set sail from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts aboard the Spray, bound for South America and the headwaters of the Orinoco River. On June 27, 1898, Slocum sailed the Spray into the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, becoming the first man known to have sailed around the world alone. On the morning of April 24, 1895, the Spray, with Slocum at the helm, departed Boston Harbor. Spray was a 36-foot-9-inch (11.20 m) sailboat weighing nine tons that Joshua Slocum, a 19th-century Canadian-American seaman and author, rebuilt and sailed around the world solo. Lost at sea sometime on or after Novemcause unknown. ( March 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.
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