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Long after most Harvard students left Cambridge for the summer, rowers from the freshman heavyweight boat and the varsity lightweight boat remained to train for the Henley Royal Regatta. The rowers endured grueling practices out of Newell Boathouse until June 24, when they packed their bags and gear for Henley-on-Thames, England...
Three weeks before its national championship regatta, the Harvard lightweight crew was still two seconds behind season-long rival Yale. But on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. on June 2, the lightweights won the national title over the Elis by a second—in a boat they had begun rowing just one week earlier...
...called to ask if we wanted to try it,” said Harvard lightweight Coach Charley Butt. “We were still two seconds behind Yale and it was a new boat so we thought we should look...
...Crews that would not normally look at a new boat look at them after other crews start using them,” said sophomore lightweight Alex Binkley. “That’s the way it is with new technology in rowing. One crew starts using it and the other crews start...
Binkley, who rowed last season in the first freshman lightweight boat, is a veteran rower who is expanding his niche in the sport by designing boats...