Word: shells
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...SALE.- A Ruddock single shell, in good second hand condition. Apply F. CRIMSON office. 36tf...
...SALE.- A Ruddock single shell, in good second-hand condition. Apply F, CRIMSON office. 36tf...
...SALE.- A Ruddock single shell, in good second-hand condition. Apply F, CRIMSON office. 36tf...
...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...