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After Harvard's 22-second triumph last week over Dartmouth and Navy, Andersen has decided to stick with the new Stampfli boat for the rest of the season. Early in the week he tried to race the Stampfli against the Pocock, but the results were inconclusive. The comparison showed, at least, that the new, shorter boat was no slower than the Pocock...
...this race the crew will be trying out a new stampfli boat, instead of the regular pocock. Andersen said yesterday that he has not yet decided which boat to use for the remaining two races, but that he is happy to have the new boat. The stampfli is shorter than the pocock and rigged slightly differently. "It usually takes some time to make the switch," Anedrsen said...
...traditional Pocock shell is 61 feet long and the Stampfli shell which the varsity now uses is 58 feet. The hope is that the new English shell will offer less water resistance and go faster...
Harvard will be racing in the standard American Pocock shell instead of the Swiss Stamlli it has used in all but one of its races this year. The Pocock will be rigged in the German style, however, with the two, four, five, and seven oars on the starboard side...
Gift of an anonymous donor, the $2,000 shell will be used in competition for the first time during the four-mile race with Yale June 23. It was constructed in the Seattle shop of George Pocock, famed West Coast boat builder...