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...crew will race this year in a new shell, built by Davy, from a very original plan of Mr. Bryant, the yacht designer. The boat is shaped very much like a cigar, the stern being square and about eight inches wide. It is several feet longer than the ordinary, and will weigh 250 pounds. The unusually wide stern is expected to prevent the shell from settling at the end of the stroke. If the experiment succeeds it will revolutionize the present system of boat building...
Captain Armstrong of the Yale crew has devised a pump by which the coxswain can bail out the shell in rough weather...
...shells have been purchased this year for the 'varsity, one a regulation racing shell and the other a boat built on the same model, only heavier and stronger, so that it will be of more use as a practice boat. The former of these boats will cost $600 and the latter $500. Last year's crew ruined all the old shells, and even the one in which the race was rowed last year would hardly last a month if used. The freshmen will have a shell exactly similar to the 'varsity racing boat, and they expect...
...crew, which he expects to have finished soon after the 15th. The barge is very much lighter and narrower than the boat the freshmen had last year, and it is hoped by this means to avoid the usual abrupt change when the crew begins to row in a racing shell...
...cedar shell has been ordered for the '97 crew. It will be built by Davy, and will cost about...