Their performances will be found under the description of the first keelless eight.
From that time the keelless racing boat has held its own, fours and pairs and sculling boats all following suit.
Two very usual club rules are, that juniors shall not begin by racing in keelless crank boats, but in steady ‘tub’-built craft.
We well recollect the sensation produced by the first keelless eight, that of Chester, in 1856.
Before we got there, though, there was an upheaval in the water just ahead, and up came a back like a keelless ship bottom up.
