STRAPPED TO His BOAT. —A recent Innovation in England, where the coxswain of one of the boats during the Cambridge May races was strapped to his boat to prevent “ bobbing.” It is considered that the bobbing movement of the coxswain checks the run of the boat.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19010, 29 July 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)
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46STRAPPED TO His BOAT.—A recent Innovation in England, where the coxswain of one of the boats during the Cambridge May races was strapped to his boat to prevent “ bobbing.” It is considered that the bobbing movement of the coxswain checks the run of the boat. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19010, 29 July 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)
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