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| San Francisco Call, 15-May-1895 |
William A Coulter did many maritime drawings for the San Francisco Call. I am not familiar with the term "boarding-boat."
PETERSON'S NEWEST PET
The Celebrated Oarsman
Launches a New Craft
on the Bay.
Henry Peterson, the celebrated local oarsman, dipped his new launch Amy into the water last night off the Folsom street wharf and will make a trial run on the bay to-day.
The new craft in appearance is strong as George Knight's boat, the Athlete. She is 40 feet in length over all, 10 feet in beam, has a depth of 4 l/4 feet and a twenty-horse power engine. The latter was put in by the Union Gas Engine Company, the same company which supplied the power to the Satellite. The hull was built by Koopman, and Peterson says that when he desires to open the vessel out she will make the fastest time of any craft of her kind on the bay.
"The Amy is not supposed to be a sprinter," said Mr. Peterson yesterday afternoon. "She may not be able to outrun the Satellite, but I would like to be in the race of which Colonel Knight speaks between the Athlete and Satellite. My boat has been built for rough weather, and for endurance I will put her, against any tug on the bay. For speed— well, she's a ferryboat."
The Amy will be used as a boarding-boat in rough weather and as an excursion craft in all other kinds of weather.
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