TRANSCRIPT

Excerpt of an interview completed with Henry Vokey by a Student Researcher Hazel Janes.

Hazel: What types of conditions would it have to be to launch a boat?

Henry: Well to launch a boat you had to put down 2 big runners first, wooden runners what we call launch ways then you had to build a fit out on that, to slide out and fit up under the boat and that would go out in the water with the boat, and that was called a cradle.

Hazel: Oh ok. And then you push her out?

Henry: No she could go out on her own.

Hazel: Oh.

Henry: Because a launch way was usually built on a, on a slope and when you put a cradle, we had to make the cradle do because the notch cut in down a couple on each side and what we use to call a key and the boat couldn't move not until you knocked out that key.

Hazel: Oh ok.

Henry: And when you knocked out that key she was ready to go on her own.