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Made of five-eighths-of-an-inch steel, the Alexbow's 14-ft.-high concave blade is attached to the nose of a tug-pushed barge. It glides under unbroken ice, exerts upward pressure. As the ice breaks, it rides up the slopes of the bow blade and is deposited on solid ice at either side of the barge...
...trials, Alexander has refined his Alexbow. Pushed by a 2,500-h.p. tug, he says, it can now tackle ice from three to four feet thick. He also proposes a detachable version that could be fitted to any vessel, and a plow that could be built onto the bow of a ship during construction. "There is no question in my mind," he says, "that one day icebreakers will no longer be used. Cargo ships themselves will do the ice-breaking." In a prelude to such an era, two Alexbow-equipped barges will be driven by a 5,000-h.p. trawler...
...boatings are also set for the rest of the season. The boat's line-up consist of captain Brian Sullivan, cox; Joe Bracewell, stroke; Bill Braun, 7; Rob Wolff, 6; Ken Miller, 5; Fred Fisher, 4; Jim Gerrity, 3; Joe McPherson, 2; and Chris Cutler, bow...
With 1000 meters left, the Harvard coxswain called a power 20, which moved the boat out ahead by half a length. At this point, the bow man in Princeton's shell caught a crab, which immediately threw the entire boat down to port. In the panic to get the boat moving again, the number five man jumped his slide...
Harvard's time of 6:13.3 did not set a course record. There was a stiff head wind quartering off the port bow...