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	Bowloader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bowloader is a crew shell (a type of boat used in sport rowing) in which the coxswain lies semi-supine in the bow, as opposed to the normal seated position at the stern.
		Although a small number of bowloader eights exist the larger boat's momentum means that a coxswain lying in the bows could be injured in a collision if the bow collapses.
		A bowloader is both in theory and in practice faster than a stern-coxed boat since the mass of the coxswain in the bow reduces porpoising, and the semi-supine position puts the coxswain's center of mass below the waterline, reducing roll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bowloader (203 words)

	Lemonade X-Factory (by M.M.M)
		The above concept was developed by the Navy in the late 1940s around a high speed seaplane transport (the R3Y), a jet fighter seaplane (the Convair F2Y SeaDart) and a jet bomber seaplane (the Martin P6M SeaMaster).
		It was planned that these three aircraft could fly anywhere in the world and have a floating base set up by suitable naval vessels anchored or buoyed in sheltered water.
		It was further envisioned that the Bowloader R3Y-2s would be able to pull up and tie up to these floating docks to offload and on-load their cargo.
	www.x-plane.org /home/lemonade/tradewind_us.html (247 words)

	row2k columns
		Despite the comment above, it is indeed possible for coxswains of bowloaders to be the same kind of diagnostic coxswains as when they can see their rowers and oars in a sternloader.
		Steering a bowloader is different from steering a sternloader (particularly when your 3 seat -- I'm not mentioning names here; you know who you are -- mischievously takes his left foot out of the stretcher and clamps it against the steering cable).
		By the same token, landing a bowloader is trickier than it first looks because there are fewer cues for gauging the boat's entire relation to the dock.
	www.row2k.com /columns/index.cfm?action=read&ID=39 (774 words)

	XDS2KX/CODY: April 2004 Archives
		After last week's trouble with catching crabs and a tailwind, the relatively calm water was a pleasure to work with.
		Basically, with the bowloader, instead of sitting in front of the rowers, in the rear (= stern) of the boat, you sit in a hulled out extension of the front (= bow) of the boat.
		The other cool thing about being in the bowloader is that you're in the front of the boat.
	www.xds2kx.com /cody/archives/2004_04.html (4595 words)

	Coxie.com
		I am a cox and she is rower.
		It is a bowloader 4 and she is bow seat.
		Its so weird being in the same boat as her, especialy because she has been rowing with the poeple in my baot longer than I have.
	www.coxie.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=archivecategory&year=2002&month=09&module=1 (691 words)

	St Andrew Boat Club
		Putting the riggers back on is fairly straight forward - they are normally numbered somewhere, and the correct rigger should be put in each place (1 is for bow, 4 is for stroke etc.).
		Seats are not always numbered (except the Empacher 8) but you should check which one has a magnet attached underneath, and put this in the correct seat in the boat (where there is a matching magnet) - this is normally bow seat for bowloader fours, and stroke seat for eights and stern loaders.
		Each boat is colour-coded so that you can find all the matching parts.
	www.standrewboatclub.com /boathouse/rigging.html (483 words)

	RowersWorld.com \| Ghost in the Machine - From the Vaults: Dancing around the Monolith
		But, let me tell you, it's much easier to steer a bowloader from the bow seat than it is from the coxswain's coffin in the hull.
		Since your eyes are on the same plane as the water, piloting a bowloader is roughly equivalent to playing Pole Position with your eyes half an inch from the TV screen.
		Add the fact that the only thing stopping you from gliding up and down the shell like an itinerant screwdriver is a foam pad pressing deeper into your neck with each stroke, and you can see why most coxswains relish the comparative luxury of the stern.
	rowersworld.com /Content/Ghost/99_9_7d.php (1285 words)

	Ships Of Calmac - History of: Iona (VII)
		The new ferry was expected to enter service in the spring of 1970 and if the Redhouse terminal was not ready for use she would serve Port Askaig and Colonsay from Oban.
		The County Council must be judged as the villain of the piece because in January 1969, after preliminary test-borings, the ruling fathers of Argyll gaily declared they would not, after all, proceed with works at Redhouse, abdicating on grounds of cost.
		May, and thereafter the IONA (and, indeed, her successors) bowloaded at Stornoway and sternloaded at Ullapool.
	www.shipsofcalmac.co.uk /h_iona.asp (5108 words)

	Long Beach Junior Regatta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If the race umpire considers a crew to be in imminent danger of impeding the progress of another crew he/she will announce the offending crew’s lane number and indicate with a flag the direction in which the crew should move.
		It is essential that rowers of a crew being warned relay this information to the coxswain (especially relevant for bowloader fours/quads) so that immediate appropriate action may be taken.
		If a crew fails to respond and/or interferes with another crew, the offending crew may be disqualified from the race.
	eteamz.active.com /LBJuniorRegatta/index.cfm (1560 words)

	GCRA Reservoir Dogs Crew Site - Should GCRA buy a bow coxed 4+? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is so much easier during races to know what to say by seeing the faces of your rowers, feeding off of them, and being able to see the entire field of competition.
		Coxswains that have used them once or twice may think it would be fun to have one, but day in and and day out of practicing with a bowloader really gets to you!
		Kim Hoffman: For what it's worth, (from the handful of times that I was in a bow-coxed boat), I am in 100 % agreement with Amy's comments.
	www.humanfactor.com /reservoir-dogs/news/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=124 (1391 words)

	APL - Advanced Production and Loading AS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Two alternating shuttle tankers will transport oil to shore.
		The cost effective SAL-system design is based on single anchor and permits a standard bowloader to be used.
		Based on proven technology and components from other APL systems, like STL and STP, the system is designed to prevent production shutdowns due to weather conditions.
	www.apl.no /news/archive/archive_pressnote_980504_4.asp (198 words)

	St Andrew Boat Club
		If you have overlap and they do not move, they are likely to be penalised, but you must still avoid clashing blades or boats.
		Remember their cox cannot see you if they have a bowloader.
		Use a ten/twenty stroke push to get past a crew safely.
	www.standrewboatclub.com /coxing/coxing-heads.html (1097 words)

	Lower Thames
		The photo (click on thumbnail to the left) shows a coxed four crewed by Louis Attrill at stroke, Ben Hunt Davis at bow, Rod Eddington in the three seat and Richard Branson at two...
		but what really got the slug's little feelers quivering, was the sight of Sebastian Coe crammed into the coxn's seat of a BOWLOADER Empacher - which as we all know, are usually designed with 12 yr old anorexics in mind.
		So, wondering just how Mr Coe managed to get his alleged 5 ft 10 inch frame wedged into the boat (and if he ever got out again), we asked Rod Eddington.
	www.twrc.rowing.org.uk /slug/oldslime77.htm (963 words)

	Stesha's Journal
		Everyone else seems to just keep to themselves.
		There is a Russian eight who rows in a bowloader eight without a cox box.
		Well, I will update everyone in a couple of days how the race went.
	www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us /pvsports/cr/steshajournal.html (2947 words)

	OUBC - Squad News
		Rapidly moving up on and then passing the crews around them, they were clocked as the fastest boat in the field through the first timing marker.
		From there on in things got interesting as the twisting Charles river narrowed and the bowloader coxed fours ahead looked for the fastest line and were either too slow, too neglegent or too stubborn to move over as they were supposed to.
		Three boat-stopping clashes led to a very frustrated Oxford crew and a Boston river littered with F-bombs.
	www.oubc.rowing.org.uk /new/squad_news.jsp (19488 words)

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