STANBURY – WEBB ROWING MATCH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3731, 13 December 1906, Page 2

STANBURY - WEBB ROWING MATCH.

The new boat built by George Towns for Webb is a very nice craft, and the Wanganui oarsman will be as well boated on Boxing Day as his great riyal. The boat is 25 feet long, or about 6 inches longer than the old one which Webb has used for some five years past. The total weight of the boat, with riggers, ect, is only 24U35, or only a pound more than Dunnan’s shell, which has been pronounced by the Canadian andhis friends to be such a marvel of lightness. Webb was out twice yesterday in the new skiff, which is more buoyant than the old boat, and does not dip like the latter used to. There was not that stopping between the strokes which was so noticeable in the old boat, which was much deeper in the water and hence, the resistance was greater and pace correspondingly more. Webb expresses himself as very well pleased with the boat, and providing all goes well in the meantime with her, he will have no excuse, if beaten, on the score of having an inferior craft to row in. The swivels are constructed differently to anything seen here, and are supposed to be- an improvement. Altogether the boat is a credit to the builder, and should prove remarkably fast.—Herald.