Just a similar sort of prejudice was displayed against the earlier style of rowing in keelless boats.
A quarter of a century ago the idea of amateurs sitting a keelless eight or four, without rolling rowlocks under, until they had first practised for days or weeks in a steady craft, would have been derided.
The history of the introduction of the various improvements of outriggers, keelless boats, and sliding seats, has been given in other chapters.
The first keellesseight that won a University match.
Their performances will be found under the description of the first keelless eight.
In these days of keelless boats more practice is needed, in order to do justice to the craft, than when heavier and steadier craft were used.
The keelless boat requires a sharp catch up at the beginning to get the best pace out of it, and it also requires more 'sitting' to keep it on an even keel.
Two very usual club rules are, that juniors shall not begin by racing in keelless crank boats, but in steady 'tub'-built craft.
Good watermen can jump into a racing boat and sit her off-hand; bad watermen will be unsteady in a keelless boat even after days of practice.
In a season or two style reasserted itself, and it was found that it was by no means impossible to row in as neat a shape in a keelless boat as in a keeled one.
We well recollect the sensation produced by the first keelless eight, that of Chester, in 1856.
The Kayans were glad to provide prahus, the keelless boats which are used by both Dayak and Malay.
At the Henley Regatta of the preceding year the Royal Chester Rowing Club had entered a crew rowing in this novel style of keelless boat for the Grand Challenge and the Ladies' Cups.
From that time the keelless racing boat has held its own, fours and pairs and sculling boats all following suit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keelless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
