Word: headwind
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...would be interested to see the oars in less than perfect weather," O'Lery said, "especially in a headwind. With that large surface area, squaring the oars could slow a boat down...
...second varsity boat finished its season with a splashy win over the second B.U. boat. Despite a furious headwind which made the race longer than usual, the women in black managed to swing hard and take their opponents by one-and-a-half boat lengths...
...Saturday races, focusing much of its practice time on building up and holding their racing cadence at 34 strokes a minute. A slow cadence had cost the Black and White the race against Princeton two weeks earlier, and Radcliffe was still having problems keeping the pace up in a headwind...
Rowing downstream into a slight cross-headwind, the Crimson decided to forego the sprint and conserve energy for Sunday's races, realizing the Compton Cup was safely in hand. The Crimson finished Saturday's race a solid length-and-a-half ahead of Princeton, with a hapless MIT trailing somewhere in Harvard's wake...
Walker was timed at 19:48.09 seconds while often rowing into a headwind on a winding upstream course of about three miles...