Building a Ship Like Caesar's 



A Californian will make a cruise around the 

 world in a Roman galley which he built himself 



A QUAINT, staunch little craft, built 

 along the lines of the ancient Roman 

 galleys,' lately startled the inhabi- 

 tants of the university city of Berkeley, 

 California, by navigating through the resi- 

 dence and business streets in a 

 land voyage of two and one 

 half miles to the ocean shore, 

 where it was to receive its 

 finishing touches. 



The builder and navi- 

 gator, Mr. Robert Paine, 

 had the strange craft 

 moved to the beach on 

 three-wheeled house- 

 moving trucks, the tow 

 being successfully ac- 

 complished in a few 

 hours by a motor truck. 



The idea of construct- 

 ing such a craft was con- 

 ceived and begun just 

 before the European war 

 broke out, the builder, a 

 sculptor of note, having a commission to 

 execute in Spain. When his original plans 

 were thwarted, he altered them, and at the 

 present time has the inten 

 tion of sailing through th( 

 Panama Canal to the Med- 

 iterranean and elsewhere 

 for a cruise of several years 

 with his family and a 

 party of congenial 

 tist friends. 



T 

 Wright 

 credit 



Mr. Robert Paine, the builder 

 at work on the rudder boxing 



notable statuary of the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition. The strange craft, which is 

 about the size of the smaller of Columbus' 

 caravels, 55 feet in length, 20 feet high, 

 and II feet of beam, was hewn out of the 

 rough by his own hands "between 

 times." It will be rigged 

 with a large square sail. 

 The vessel has been 

 given the name of Aries, 

 the name having been 

 taken from one of the 

 signs of the Zodiac. A 

 large ram's head carved 

 from wood serves as a 

 figurehead. A most 

 conspicuous and debate- 

 able feature of the out- 

 v/ard appearance is the 

 queer oar-like rudder 

 protruding from the 

 stern, like an ancient 

 galley oar, but rigidly 

 pivoted at the center of 

 its lower end in a ball-and-socket joint. A 

 tiller arm is attached to the rudder head lo- 

 cated in the peep-cabin. Most rudders are 



Side view of the rudder showing the 

 queer manner in which it is suspended 



Stern view of the keel showing also the 

 knife-edge of the rudder and brace beams 



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