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...Davy has got his eight-oared shell almost finished. The wash-boards are on, the bracing partly in and one coat of varnish on. There are many original features in the bracing. The outriggers will be tied together by means of diagonal wooden stays fastened with brass joints to the out rigger timbers. In Blaikie's boats built last year there was a similar cross bracing tried, but it was made of steel strips laid across the seat bracers from one outrigger to the other. Since it is not so much tenacity that is needed but firmness, Mr. Davy thinks...
...Kerns pattern and work splendidly while the outriggers are fitted with the Kerns pins. Mr. Blaikie has finished two singles and one double-scull of the kind called "compromise" boats. Of this pattern also are the three boats built by Davy. This kind of boat is just like a shell in appearance but is much broader and more buoyant so as to stand rough water. Although not so light as shells they are not very much less frail and men using them ought to take great care in handling them...
Besides these boats Mr. Blaikie is building a very light four-oar-almost a shell-without any coxswain's seat, to be used only by men of some skill. It is a boat twenty-two inches wide with two small laps. Another very heavy four-oar will carry a coxswain: it is thirty inches wide; and a lapsteak. Two lap-streak pair-oars are to be built by Blaikie and three wherries. These wherries are singles about two feet wide, lap-streaked and high enought to stand the roughest water ever seen on the Charles river. These boats though very...
...plan, a crew costs upwards of two thousand dollars, and all of this must be raised by subscriptions from freshmen alone. Two thousand dollars may seem at first though too large an amount of money to spend for such a purpose, but, if any man will remember that a shell and oars cost six hundred dollars, board at training table twelve dollars a week per man, expenses of three weeks training at New London several hundred dollars, miscellaneous as much more, it will be seen that two thousand dollars is a very small estimate. As a class the freshmen this...
...shell for the freshman crew which has arrived is much similar to those of previous years. It is about sixty feet long and was built at Troy N. Y., by Waters...