[image_credit]Wikimedia Commons[/image_credit][image_caption]Walter Hoover in the single-person rowing shell (boat) he designed. From the collection of Walter Hoover, Jr.[/image_caption] Walter Hoover ...

Instead, their father, Arthur Martin, took them out in newfangled fiberglass kayaks he designed and built himself. It was the early 1950s, when the only kayaks most people had seen were those paddled ...

Our habitual detractors of the youth of the land have overlooked the rowing history of t h e Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In post-war days when the easiest way was supposed to be the ...