Walking quickly but steadily, he traversed the 10-foot beam.
Each was 120-feet long, with a 31 1/2-foot beam and copper-lined wooden bottoms.
At 87 feet long overall and with a 19-foot beam, it is also 5 feet longer and 2 feet wider than the old boat.
The elegant vessel — 230 feet long, with a 32-foot beam — could sail under wind, or convert to steam and screw propeller.
John L. Smith, the general manager, said that storage for a 40-foot boat with a 13-foot beam is about $1,600 a month and includes pumping out all the tanks and washing the boat.
With an all-up weight of just 44,000 pounds, a 70-foot beam, and twin, unstayed wing masts, the Adrian Thompson design is one of a handful of unlimited nautical projectiles setting course for The Race.
The Taiwanese-owned, Liberian-flagged ship dubbed the A Whale stands 10 stories high, stretches 1,115 feet in length and has a nearly 200-foot beam.
The next day, McWha returned to the river with a net, positioned himself on a 14-foot beam that had washed ashore during a flood, and started lifting 10 to 15 fish at a time over the Main Street Dam.
It measures 105.2 feet long with a 17.9 feet beam.
Phoenix is 89 feet long with a 19.5 feet beam and a 7 feet draft.
The barge measures 111.1 feet long with a 24 feet beam.
