Word: tiller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoot orders at a boatload of sweating oarsmen are invited by Coach Whiteside to attend the first meeting of his school for coxswains tonight in the Upper room of the Union at 7 o'clock. Whiteside says that ambitious lightweights will be taught enough about commands, balance, bladework, and tiller-handling to enable them to take out a shell without previous experience...
...motivating its central character. Bligh aboard the Bounty, a pasty-faced, sharp-tongued, miserly sadist, is a splendid portrait. It is, however, only a preface to Bligh after the mutiny. Bligh on duty and in action, cursing his loyal sailors from the stern of the open boat, riding the tiller in mountainous seas, slitting the neck of a seabird for a sick sailor and finally, as the gulls rise out of the sea mist, croaking through dried lips the one word, "Timor...
Francis has behind him Watson at 7, Saltonstall at 6, Atherton at 5, Gardner at 4, Eliel at 3, Drury at 2, and Mills at bow with Tommy Hunter holding the tiller ropes...
...failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned by a Bermuda blacksmith named Al Darrell. They were two days behind...
...that the tiny tikes can make or break a crew. They have to know how to get the most out of the men. A good coxswain must know when to coax and plead with his oarsmen, when to encourage and when to threaten. By his skillfull handling of the tiller ropes he can save precious yards that may mean the difference between victory and defeat in an important race. He must be a strategist. He must know when to coast and when to spurt...