Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — The Chinese Style of Boats. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Style of Boats.

There are three Chinese Junks in Ban Francisco Bay engaged In the shrimping trade. A reporter who visited ono of them, the Lund Sune, found everything arranged contrary to nature, according to Western notions. The planking of the deck ran athwartship, the anchor hung over the stern, the rudder had a large number of diamond-shaped holes In It and the batwing-like sail was hoisted with an uncouth windlass, though It would be quicker and easier to give the halyards a few pulls. Then the ribs came up a few inches above the deck and the side-planking ran beyond the stern, as if the ship carpenter had forgotten to come back with a saw and finish his Job. Nevertheless the captain of the Lund Sune regards her as a clipper and wants to enter In the Fourth of July regatta, If there is to be one.