[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 ...
PORT TOWNSEND — If you want to win a rowing event, choose a state-of-the-art racing shell made out of carbon fiber. But if your goal is to look good, turn heads and have fun, nothing beats a George ...
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 ...
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