European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of Diri participatory journalist Plimpton ss5i tracks Down former pro Center Bill by Christopher  new York times in one More George Plimpton has returned to the world of professional and ones first inclination is to protest1 that we had enough of it in paper Tiger and More than enough in mail ducks and out what has drawn Plimpton Back this time is not another inglorious Opportunity to gel himself pasted to the turf at the quarterback it is the beguiling intelligence at certain professional football a characteristic that Plimpton not Only can Lake credit for discovering and conveying to the world at but also May even be suspected of the Alex Karras who comes across he airwaves a the color commentator far abcs monday nigh Root Ball has never seemed half As interesting As the Alex Karras that la Mineses in Plimpton Bui be thai As 11 the football intelligence one meets in one More july Harper howl belongs to Bui a former Al pro Center Anil president of the players association whom Plimpton first Mel and be friended when he wit up to some participatory journalism with the Baltimore since Curry has bounced around the National football league for a few picked up a debilitating knee and is heading North from his Home in Georgia to give his career one last shot with the Green Bay where it All began under the malevolent dictatorship of Vince As the Book Plimp ton meets Curry at the Airport in Louis climbs to his switches on a tape and rides with the rest is mostly talking and re Manisc the result is a penetrating took into the world of professional the Conversa Tion does Amble through some Wellborn territory race Howard the idiosyncrasies of unusual play the behaviour of the disappoint ment of being Cut from the squad and there is the causal share of amusing anecdotes that one has come to expect in Plimpton about How a proves coach once  led team in a pref me prayer session now l Lay me Down Pray the lord my soul to about the Baltimore tighten John lackeys fear of and How he played what a perhaps his greatest game because he didst wish to be tackled among the Earth Worms that a recent rain had brought out of Lite turf in san Francisco Kezar Staci but what makes one Mare july especially refreshing u Bill Curry unusual Intelli and the Odd and original things he tells us about playing professional More surprising be breathes new life into tired Inch As the Fean Menesi of Vince Umbardo or abort Why really Alaji the love and not for Money is 1 not enough and in Ous As i can be to go  of things weve been in did Bill Curry Etc in the game that in the final where be and Plimpton Green Anil Curry conducts a Lour of places he used to live and play at in the old Days under the no deceased 1 actually Felt a sense of nostalgia a nos Talgia for what he has earlier persuaded us one of he most horrendous experiences of his ambiguous intensity of the professional football life Bill Curry has caught it As Well As anyone who has written before of course it is Plimpton who has drawn Curry out from Start to i dont want to take anything away from i just mean to emphasize that this in a different sort of Plimpton football Book not a product of Plimpton the but of Plimp ton the in which role he As usual at his very  the Man who wanted to build a better Mousetrap had nothing on Ken Bowley and George its not rodents but fish that concern the Hardy Maine they Are now the proud owners of a 53foot steel fishing vessel not exactly a common sight along new eng land wed been talking about this idea for four so i thought it was about time we did something about recalled the landlubber of the a Middle aged Portland merchant whose store serves As a sort of ships Chan Zaimes Asa i always wanted to have my own fishing he supplied the muscle while Bowley put in some hours helping to build the 47ton Iron Zaimes christened it pharos a greek term for courage believe it a hell at a lot of courage to Start building a Heel boat from said skipper who in of Tuia fish the boat and George is Lakin care of the land part of the Well in Ltd everything for a giant of a Man who has been fishing or lob stering 15 years for pharos also represents a dream the project finally got under Way last fall after the pair had engaged Royal Ken Bowley at Helm of pharos 1 Lowell of Maine and who hails from a Long line of Shiu designers to draw up plans for Bowley contacted some friends in nearby who own the thank into the engineering a tank repair and steel fabricating fir they agreed to help him construct pharos at it was their first venture in it was also the Flint boat to in West fwd and the first steel boat to be constructed in the area since a Liberty ship was built in South Portland in predicts that with a growing Scarcity of More and More builders will be turning to steel its certainly More economical in the Long our boat should have at least a 50year while the Norm for a wooden boat is from Azous indicating a Florida shrimp boat next to pharos at Portland Central this wooden boat just Cost its owner to have it corked and but you gotta Lake into consideration that the paint goes for 60 a steel boats will bold up a longer and require a lot less in the interest of Prater strength and Bowley toe one Quarter Inch thick a Satlof we entirely welded rather than it also features a Binch ship Channel keel along the Bottom that is one solid the Bow ii Arrow plated As Wilt 14inch thick by blot Inch deep solid steel that in Case we run up on anything like piling theres lots of stuff floatin1 about out said the entire boat has been sandblasted with some 30 tons of blasting Sand and painted Wilh two Andhree Coats of Corro Siv resistant pain Bowley pointed out that its Only the exterior that guts such a thorough everything above including the Pilot House and dog House engr Neeway to the engine room is made of according to the skipper the Ste Bustruc tured vessel is actually lighter in water than a wooden boat of a Wood boat soaks up water it a lot More of a steel boat Doest soak up water at this one better added a pharos i will carry 100 Gill nets while in conventional sister ships handle about Bowley said the 174bbrsetxwcr engine will enable it to attain Speed of from Lihou Iknou about 41 Miles an Houri Attiat a full displacement and is not built for the Craft equipped a Tab in Rte Hydraulic men each having a capacity of 3h Gallons a pharos also Boatti two cold storage vans below deck for their the boat has a gallon fuel capacity and is expected to use about seven Gallons an pharos stands 19feel High from the keel to the top of the and is 15 8incnes wide there is a Generator aboard for a cooking stove and base which can sleep a six Man is electronically equipped with radar and Shaplo Shore radios that beam up