Word: shell
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shell for the race has been ordered. The model will be exactly the same as that of last year's boat, but the rigging inside will be made to fit each...
Davis, the oarsman and inventor of rowing apparatus, has received an order from Yale for an eight-oar shell, to be built at the Detroit Boat Works, and is to be fitted with all the latest patented Davis appliances. It is reported that the new shell is 68 feet long, beam 20 inches and depth 10 inches...
...varsity shell which is being built at Worcester, will be provided with a unique steering device. It consists of a compass in fornt of the coxswain, whose indicator is connected by lines with the rudder, and registers every movement of it. By means of this device the coxswain will be enabled to tell if either side is pulling harder than the other, and to call on the weaker side for more work...
...chief objections to the rowing tanks in the Gymnasium is that the water cannot be made to circulate rapidly enough to imitate the motion of a shell. A plan which will probably be adopted is an endless chain of paddles to quicken the circulation of the water, to revolve in the inner trough on each side of the boat by steam power. If this plan proves practicable it will greatly lessen the drudgery of practice...
Next Monday, George Webb, the Worcester boat builder, will begin work upon a new shell for the Harvard eight, which is a radical departure from ordinary eight-oared shells in that it will be a round, full boat, carrying her lines to the extreme length of stem and stern. Mr. Webb intends to build from designs approved by Coach Watson, a boat that will weigh not more than two hundred pounds, and will carry 1350 pounds. It will be of Spanish cedar and 63 feet long, with a beam of 22 inches and an extreme depth of 13.25 inches...