FOX surf boat
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The Fox was a specially built surf boat to be rowed across the Atlantic Ocean
. It was custom built in 1896 by Seaman Sea Skiffs of Branch Port, New Jersey by William A. Seaman for George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen of Highlands, New Jersey, the boat was named Fox for the financial backer Richard Kyle Fox, owner of the "pink tabloid", Police Gazette
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Seaman was well known for building the seaworthy Nauvoo surf boat and he built the Fox with watertight compartments and hand rails on the keel
, for righting the boat if capsized at sea. This feature would be used at least once in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during heavy seas.
In 1975 a replica of the Fox was built by the Long Branch Ice Boat and Yacht Club (LBIBYC) of New Jersey with the participation of Harold L. Seaman. Harold L. Seaman was the son of the boat builder who, as youngster backed-up most of the rivets and at age 91 reconstructed "from old photographs, shop records and memory, lines and measurements, correct within a fraction of an inch" a full set of plans.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
. It was custom built in 1896 by Seaman Sea Skiffs of Branch Port, New Jersey by William A. Seaman for George Harbo and Frank Samuelsen of Highlands, New Jersey, the boat was named Fox for the financial backer Richard Kyle Fox, owner of the "pink tabloid", Police Gazette
Police Gazette
The National Police Gazette, commonly referred to as simply the Police Gazette, was an American magazine founded in 1845 by two journalists, Enoch E. Camp, also an attorney, and George Wilkes, a transcontinental railroad booster...
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Seaman was well known for building the seaworthy Nauvoo surf boat and he built the Fox with watertight compartments and hand rails on the keel
Keel
In boats and ships, keel can refer to either of two parts: a structural element, or a hydrodynamic element. These parts overlap. As the laying down of the keel is the initial step in construction of a ship, in British and American shipbuilding traditions the construction is dated from this event...
, for righting the boat if capsized at sea. This feature would be used at least once in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during heavy seas.
In 1975 a replica of the Fox was built by the Long Branch Ice Boat and Yacht Club (LBIBYC) of New Jersey with the participation of Harold L. Seaman. Harold L. Seaman was the son of the boat builder who, as youngster backed-up most of the rivets and at age 91 reconstructed "from old photographs, shop records and memory, lines and measurements, correct within a fraction of an inch" a full set of plans.