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...Sprague, a niece of G. W. Weld '60, the founder of the club. It is intended to take the place of the old racing shell built in 1897-98. The new shell is 62 feet long, 23 inches wide, and 10 inches deep. It is constructed of Spanish cedar, both on the body and on the wash boards. A new system of bracing not yet tried here has been used and will probably prove very satisfactory...
...crews, will act as head coach for the Yale university crew during the approaching training season. The university and freshman crews will continue daily practice in the harbor until the snow and ice prevent rowing. The university candidates have been rowing in a new cedar barge built by John Keast...
...swing and the slide have been shortened, and a sharper, more snappy stroke has resulted. The breadth of the oars has been increased in the first boat to 7 1-4 inches, and in the second boat to 6 1-2 inches from 6 inches last year. The new cedar shell made by Ruddock of New York has arrived and will be used in the Annapolis race...
Length over all, 51 feet; beam, 7 feet 9 inches; square stern; timbers and frames of selected white oak, planked with white cedar in two thicknesses, the inner layer 1-2 inch, outer planking 5-8 inch; copper-fastened and riveted through timbers; garboards and upper strake of white oak; stern and planksheer of selected teak; decks laid in narrow strips of white pine; coaming for cockpit of quartered oak. In the after end of the forward cockpit is a bulkhead, forward of the boller bulkhead, in which is placed the steering wheel, this space is the full width...
...land adjoining the ruins in the Copan valley and comprising several thousand acres, and the building of a house thereon to serve as headquarters for exploration from year to year. The runs will furnish an abundant supply of building stone ready at hand, and the forests of pine, cedar and mahogany growing on the land will afford a supply of building material which will be found convenient, in the absence of facilities for transportation...