SLIDING SEATS.
(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)
§ie,-—Can you or any of your readers explain the principle and working of the patent sliding seat for boats now in use at Home. I see by a paper—a Southern one—that a gentleman has fixed one in his boat, and it answers very well. —I am, Ac., Sigma.
[The intention of the inventors of the sliding seat was to enable the rower to get a longer stroke. For this purpose the seat has grooves in it and glass slides on which it moves backwards and forwards as the oarsman gets forward or finishes his stroke. The slides were originally of metal, but it was found that glass was better. The length of the slide varies : in an eight-oared boat it is generally eight inches, in a four-oared, six inches. The great difficulty is to get all the crew to slide together at the same time, and even now some rowing clubs at Home refuse to adopt it. Its advantages to a sculler are, however, obvious.—Ed. E.S.]
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2505, 16 January 1877, Page 2
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175SLIDING SEATS. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2505, 16 January 1877, Page 2
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