Word: wood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boat get its name? Crew member Tiff Wood '75 explains, "We got it from a Sports Illustrated article that was written about us in 1974, while we were racing in Seattle...
...Shealy, a member of the crew, told the reporter his ambition was to hang naked from a plane circling the Space Needle restaurant in Seattle. I was given the nickname 'Moon Man.'" And Wood isn't an astronomer...
Thus a name was born. Although the crew retains that handle, its members don't live up to their off-color reputations anymore, according to Wood. "We've all calmed down and gotten jobs," he says...
...Wood predicts this year's edition of the Rude and Smooth will do "reasonably well" in the club eights competition. "There's a wide range of conditioning on the boat," he said. "I work out pretty seriously all year round, but some guys haven't been in the boathouse. And we haven't practiced together yet. But we should be something like top five in our division...
...that race, the Rude and Smooth is seeded 32nd, immediately following what Wood calls his boat's "closest thing to a rival"--the Alte Achter crew...