Word: launching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Launch at New London...
...coaching launch which was recently purchased by the Harvard Rowing Committee through graduate subscription8 has so far proved to be very satisfactory. The boat, which was built by the Bath Marine Construction Company through the agency of A. P. Homer, of Boston, is especially designed for crew coaching, and fills a need which the coach has felt for several years. It is a V-bottomed boat, 30 feet by 5 feet, 6 inches, equipped with a four-cylinder 18-25 H. P. Sterling Engine of the latest type, including among other accessories a Bosch magneto and a rear starter...
...Basin last week, when the boat covered a measured mile at the rate of 18.6 miles per hour with four people aboard, and at the builder's trial at Bath, Maine, when the boat reached 20.6 miles per hour with two people aboard. Running at this speed the launch can be handled easily. The launch draws very little water, and the design is unique in that the boat does not leave a wake, sufficient to disturb an eight-oared crew, even when the launch is running at high speed. The bows flare out rather sharply over the surface...
...launch has a cedar finish and overlapping planking. In the forward cockpit is a seat for two persons. In the compartment just behind this is the covered engine, with the operator's cockpit aft. When the crews go to New London on June 3 the new launch will be taken along with the older one which has always gone to the race before...
...contract calls for delivery of the new launch by May 1, but it will probably be ready shortly after April 15, and can be put to immediate use in the spring coaching of the crews. The boat will be paid for by money collected through subscriptions...