Word: rig
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shell will be built on the conventional Waters model, and will be about the same as the boat used last year. It is to be sixty feet in length, twenty-four inches in width, and eight and three-quarter inches deep. Nothing definite is known yet about the rig. One new feature will be tried, however: the tiller lines will be so arranged that the coxswain can grasp the gunwales of the shell and still control the rudder. This will enable him to sit more steadily in the boat, and it is thought will prove a very useful arrangement...
...boat was built to test a stretcher, out-rigger and rowlocks of which Mr. Fearon was the inventer. Fearon agreed to furnish the boat at coast, which was $150, to put in his inventions for nothing and if they were unsuccessful to take them out and rig the boat in the ordinary manner...
Harvard's new cedar boat, which was imported from England, does not prove entirely satisfactory on trial. The oars are very heavy and are too long for the present rig of the boat. The sliding seats may prove satisfactory on further trial, but the rest of the rig will probably be changed. The crew has not room enough at present in the boat to get down to their work, as the craft was not rigged as ordered. The welding on the out-riggers is very imperfectly done, and it is not yet settled whether the wooden thole-pins will...
...made to thoroughly understand that he was not employed to give instructions in the British style of rowing. His service would be rather to consolidate this with the American system, taking from each the good that was in them and producing something better than either. He was, moreover, to rig the boat and adapt it to the stroke determined upon, and in other ways make himself useful to the crew. For this he was to receive $25 a week. Cook and Cowles soon began to say that Chainey was incompetent. Cook, however, returned to Philadelphia, where he remained three weeks...
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