Word: basin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steam in order to keep up with the crew, the connecting rod of the low-pressure cylinder broke, knocking off the cylinder head and smashing things generally. This necessitated taking the launch to the dry-dock for repairs. In the evening the engineer started with her for the lower basin, but she became unmanageable and went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon began to fill and the engineer was compelled to swim ashore. Efforts were made...
...annual races of the Canoe Club will take place in the basin on Monday, May 28th, and it is expected that there will be a large number of entries. The races will consist of a sailing race over a two mile triangular course, paddling races for single canoes and tandems, and also one for birch canoes. These latter will be over a one mile course. The prizes offered will be a pennant for the sailing race, and medals for the others. A second prize will be given if there are four starters, in any one race. In the evening there...
Owing to the protracted periods of low temperature this winter, the ice has formed more thickly than usual on the river this year, and the crews will probably not get on the water as soon as they did last spring. The basin below the Brookline street bridge is free from all fixed ice, but there is still a good deal of loofe floating ice which the tide carries from one bridge to the other. Above the Brookline street bridge, however, there is still a good deal of fixed ice, which it will take some time to break up. In places...
...warm weather has to a great extent softened the ice on the river, and some open water is now visible in the basin...
Conley and McKay are to engage in a single sculling match for a purse of $1000 this afternoon on the Charles river basin...