Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...position of back and knees in the older pictures, one may safely infer that the seats were fixed. A few months ago, Professor John Trowbridge, for many years Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, told me that, in the fall of 1871, he rowed in a 30-inch shell on the first sliding seat ever used at Harvard. Brown, then the "champion sculler of America," got the seat for him in England, and at his request. On page 22, Lehmann says that the seats were invented in America, and that they were introduced into England...
...University crew has recently made one or two trials in the new square-sterned shell designed by C. H. Crane '94. Later on, time trials will be held and the new style shell will be compared with the old, in order to find out which is the faster. The new boat is about six feet shorter than the standard shells which have been used for the past 25 years, and draws almost an inch more water. The stern resembles the sterns of the swift motor-boats...
...forward deck will be an especially constructed sliding rowing-seat for Coach Wray, from which he can demonstrate to the men in the shell alongside. Immediately behind this will be the forward cockpit with a seat for two people. In the compartment just behind this seat the engine will be placed with the operator's cockpit aft. The seat in this cockpit is for the engineer, who has, in past years, been in charge of the old launches, "Veritas" and "John Harvard." These older boats have been in service about 15 years and will continue to be used. They...
...opened from the Boylston Street Bridge down-stream for about a quarter of a mile, and the University crew took advantage of it by rowing on the open water for the first time this spring yesterday afternoon. The ice was still clinging about the Weld boat-house, so the shell was carried from the Newell boat-house and launched from the bank opposite Weld...
...Crane is the designer of Dixie IV, which last year defended the Harmsworth cup for the fastest motor-boat in the world under 40 feet in length. The distinctive feature of the new shell is its stern, which will be square, instead of being drawn out to a fine point as in previous boats. The new shell embodies some of the lessons Mr. Crane learned in designing hydroplanes. Although it is square, it is so built that it will drag the least possible water astern. The fact that it is seven feet shorter than previous boats will materially lessen...