Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another concern is how to safely manuever 840 boats from the water to the banks. Magazine Beach will be the port of call for the boats, which, according to Jones, are worth from $3000 to $10,000. Add the fact that these boats are not that flexible when it's easy to see why such a feat must be smoothly...
Given nice weather, more than 200,000 people will line the banks of the Charles Sunday to watch single boats barreling through the water. One after another, boats appear, disappear down river. Another boat. Another disappearce...
Only after their race is over, when they have lifted their boat out of the water and set it aside, do the rowers get to join in the merriment...
freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
crab: put the blade in the water at other than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water which in turn destroys the rower's rhythm and at worse flips him or her out of the shell...