Word: gig
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shattuck crew at St. Paul's has ordered a new four-oared gig for the second crew. It is being built by Blakey and will be finished by April first. The dimensions of the new boat will be similar to those of the second crew gig owned by the Halcyons, and it is to be fitted out with all the latest improvements in the way of oarlocks, slides...
...widest part, and tapered gradually towards bow and stern. The boat had plain, flat wooden thole-pins fitted into the gunwale. Her oars were of white ash, and ranged from thirteen feet six inches long in the waist, to twelve feet at bow and stern. The captain's gig of a man-of-war will give a very good idea of her general fittings." Since then a number of improvements have been made, and new boats used, until we have finally obtained the Waters' paper shell, which is perhaps the best racing shell made...