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small jib. Sails with either sail. [[/annotation]]
Melody is a raised deck Ketch rig auxiliary built in 1905, has a one cyl. 4 cycle Regal engine in cockpit aft 1918. Length o.a. 35'8"; Water line 28'6". Beam 10'4". 3'9" depth. 2'2" draft. 
The two masts are each about 35' rear somewhat smaller, gaffs are rather lengthened clubs handled with one halyard, and peaked high. W.C in bow, sleeps 4, in one cabin.
1924. [[underline]] Jan 20 [[/underline]] (Sunday). At 10 A.M went aboard Nat Herreshoff's Motor Yacht Helianthus see Lloyds Yacht register. He has a sharpie-rigged dinghy 2 pole masts no shrouds, with sliding gunther and a club instead of a boom, small interboard. Sails very close to the wind.
His boat has two slender
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tall masts, jib headed.
His engine Sterling is set off the Portside so as to clear the deadwoods. He says he gets much better flow of propeller stream line. Engine is simple Sterling, 900 revolutions and a remarkably small propeller. He says can drive 10 knots. Has an ^[[all]] pressure device fastened on the bow and which transmits air pressure thru a hollow wire into his deck house, where pressure is registered by an ordinary U glass tube marked by divisions and containing water, - a much simpler device [[strikethrough]] do [[/strikethrough]] than Martin's speed indicator where an Aneroid device is used. Everything in the boat cleverly thought out. His hull is made of light planking 1⅜ on top gradually thickening to 1¾