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Show Yawl Sea Bird Off on Trip to Rome. iivw I ; - j TUC AUXntAFtY YOWL. SEA ifeD PROVIDENCE. R. I. A regatta crowd saw ths yawl 8ea Bird start at 2 o'clock on June 10 on the long ocean voyage to Rome, with a crew consisting of her , owner, Thomas Fleming; Day. at the tiller, annd two Providence amateur , yachtsmen. Frederic B- Thurber and Theodore R Goodwin, on the sheets. Quite a flotilla accompanied ths daring voyagers down the hay. The Sea Bird has been thoroughly - equipped for the trip with supplies enough to last three months, though It Is hoped that she may reach her destination destina-tion In forty days. Her overall length la 25 feet t Inches; art re me width. 8 feet 4 Inches; extreme draught 3 feet $ Inches; area of working Mis. 400 square feet, and area of square sail. 120 square feet. a ftfih rjUa N4vV;iJ ft -fm tM .OWOfB BeT, La-f? 4otUrW PREO 5.T4WJO TMeODORt R GCC0tV-Aik THOMAS r DAY , |