Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the decisive win, the big story was the late season lineup changes made before Saturday's race. After a week of seat racing, coach Peter Huntsman brought up Sarah Gallup. Ellen Roy and Cathy Vance from the J.V. to strengthen his varsity boat...
...addition, Huntsman changed the rigging of the boat, switching from a starboard to a port stroke, and thus elevating Kathy Kirk to stroke from her seven seat position...
...turned out, the substitutions proved to be just what the doctor ordered, as the Radcliffe boat benefitted from the extra power. "We picked up a lot of speed, with the addition of those girls," Kirk said...
...girls we picked up were heavier and brought us closer than ever to the 125-lb. average we are supposed to be at," Peterson said. "With a tail wind like we had, being heavier is a definite advantage in the water," she said, nothing that the Williams boat was much lighter than her own crew...
...Radcliffe boat jumped out to a quick three seat lead at the start and continued to increase the bulge, taking advantage of a high (41-stroke) cadence set by Peterson during the first 500 meters of the course...