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...possible to row eighteen strokes a minute on fixed seats without any trouble. It will no doubt be possible in the future to improve the tank a great deal but it is not deemed worth while to do it this year because the crew will soon go on the water...
...paid for by an uncertainty of keeping it up. The cost of keeping the boat in repair is fully equal to that of running her. She is not a good boat for cold weather. There is no house over the running gear, so that the many water pipes around the engine are liable to freeze on a cold night and burst...
Yesterday afternoon the crew tried the tank. It was not at all satisfactory. The oars were horribly clumsy, the volume of water to be moved was too great and the current did not move with any freedom, nor did the rowing offer any resemblance to boating. The clumsiness of the oars was made by cutting a large hole in the blade and tacking upon the remaining portions thick strips of wood. The water going through the hole made the oar feel dead, while the strips of wood on the blades made them very heavy. There was a tendency...
...Cambridge, has got his eight-oared shell well under way. It is a very good looking craft; the builder has avoided as much as possible the faults of being at taught to any one idea. Mr. Davy is trying to make a boat which will move steadily through the water; he insists that it must be neither too high nor too low in the water, that it must not be too flat-bottomed nor too full forward; he tries to make her stiff and fairly light. The Harvard crew is to try her when she is ready...
Bowdoin will put an eight-oared crew on the water this year for the first time in several seasons. A challenge has been sent to the University of Pennsylvania...