Word: shell
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Boat Club has contracted with Waters of Troy for a racing shell for this year's 'varsity crew. The boat will be 60 feet long, 24 inches wide and 9 inches deep amidships. It will be made upon a new model, which, Mr. Waters thinks, will increase its speed...
...Shell and freight on shell...
...Yale 'varsity crew will race in the same shell they used last year. - Boston Globe...
Davy, the Cambridge boat builder, has already started on the frame of the shell for this year's 'varsity crew. The lines of last year's boat will be reproduced but there will be several new features, the principal result or which will be to make the shell lighter. The first point where a new idea comes in is in the space between the gunwale and the "rising." This piece of wood, which is parallel with the gunwale, usually stops at the cockpit but in the new plan it is carried to the end of the boat. Then the gunwale...
Davy is building four boats for Harvard: two for the 'varsity, and a shell and a barge for the freshmen...