Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...almost a shell-without any coxswain's seat, to be used only by men of some skill. It is a boat twenty-two inches wide with two small laps. Another very heavy four-oar will carry a coxswain: it is thirty inches wide; and a lapsteak. Two lap-streak pair-oars are to be built by Blaikie and three wherries. These wherries are singles about two feet wide, lap-streaked and high enought to stand the roughest water ever seen on the Charles river. These boats though very heavy and clumsy are quite expensive and ought to be used more...