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eight: the most common shell in intercollegiate rowing. An eight has eight sweep oarsmen...
...rest of the campus, it's a big social event," said junior Kris Baird. "For us, it's just another race." In fact, several oarsmen said they will be missing tonight's parties to rest up for the race...
...most vexing question was the arrangement of the oars: Were there three men to an oar? Three oars to a single port? Or three tiers of oarsmen, each with a single oar? Five years ago, guests at a dinner party in Britain spent much of the evening arguing over the issue. Host...
...knots. Using scale models, British and Greek scientists calculate that fully outfitted boats could have attained a top speed of almost 10 knots. "Of course," says Lieut. Commander Spyros Platis, the Greek navy's supervisor on the project, "this would be at the peak of the oarsmen's output, which couldn't last for more than a minute...
...achieve that speed, the trireme's rowers would have to maintain a pace of at least 40 strokes a minute. Many of the 130 men and 40 women in the crew, mostly youthful British volunteers, are skilled racing oarsmen. Even so, handling the as yet unnamed trireme, which will be commissioned later this month, proved to be daunting. The seats do not move, as in modern shells, and the space between them is so small that oarsmen cannot move their bodies. The two bottom tiers of oarsmen must row blind. Guidance comes from the top level of rowers...