Word: float
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This gave Mr. Baldwin the idea of filling caches with provisions and fuel and then setting them adrift on the ice. The Jeannette had followed the idea of floating with the ice-packs, but it had to be abandoned because of lack of coal; the Fram, under Nansen, had started from the wrong point. Mr. Baldwin advocates starting during the summer, so that by the time the ice-floes have been reached, winter will have set in and the cold will freeze the open sea around the ship, forcing it to float with the current. The Arctic regions would provide...
...Today, there will be no rowing and on Monday the men will leave for New London with the four-oar and two substitutes. The new boat which Davy, the Cambridge boat builder has built for them, was tried but after a short row upstream the crew returned to the float and took out the English shell which they have been using all spring. The new shell requires some readjustment before it can be used...
...Coxswains must always come into the float against the tide...
...afternoon the crew left the float at 5.50 o'clock and went down stream for about two miles, keeping close to the east shore in order to avoid the rough water occasioned by an ebbing tide and a south wind. They rowed out in the current on the way back to the quarters. Filley maintained throughout the practice the slowest stroke he has used this year, paddling along at 26 and 27 strokes to the minute. The shell was on an even keel all the time and the men rowed in clean form...
...rough water. At present the crew seems to be farther advanced than last year's freshman crew at the same time. Both the university and freshman four-oared crews were sent out in the evening. The Harvard launch, John Harvard, arrived today and is moored to the float...