Can anyone offer information about the history of bowballs?noted that the lowball was knocked off in the accident. Then a comment appeared from someone else who had experience as similar accident (and survived, as did Yasiatis).
When were they first introduced? When did FISA/USR first require them in regattas? What actually led to FISA/USR requiring them?
My understanding is that they came into use with jury-rigged balls in the 1960s/70s.
Three things have piqued my interest in this. The New England Journal of Medicine case study on the accident in which John Yasaitis was impaled by an eight on the Charles River (the eight actually went through his back and emerged through his abdomen)
Finally, I took the ball off my '65 Phelps to see how it was attached and it was weird. It looks as if the ball was hammered onto the copper sprit which then flared to lock it in place. Once the ball was off the sprit (is that the right term?) lookedlike the head of a hammerhead shark.
I'm curious about the development of this technology.
Marc
Marc Messing
RowSafeUSA.Org
Can anyone offer information about the history of bowballs?noted that the lowball was knocked off in the accident. Then a comment appeared from someone else who had experience as similar accident (and survived, as did Yasiatis).
When were they first introduced? When did FISA/USR first require them in regattas? What actually led to FISA/USR requiring them?
My understanding is that they came into use with jury-rigged balls in the 1960s/70s.
Three things have piqued my interest in this. The New England Journal of Medicine case study on the accident in which John Yasaitis was impaled by an eight on the Charles River (the eight actually went through his back and emerged through his abdomen)
Finally, I took the ball off my '65 Phelps to see how it was attached and it was weird. It looks as if the ball was hammered onto the copper sprit which then flared to lock it in place. Once the ball was off the sprit (is that the right term?) lookedlike the head of a hammerhead shark.
I'm curious about the development of this technology.
Marc
Marc Messing
RowSafeUSA.Org
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 3:23:53 PM UTC+1, Marc Messing wrote:noted that the lowball was knocked off in the accident. Then a comment appeared from someone else who had experience as similar accident (and survived, as did Yasiatis).
Can anyone offer information about the history of bowballs?
When were they first introduced? When did FISA/USR first require them in regattas? What actually led to FISA/USR requiring them?
My understanding is that they came into use with jury-rigged balls in the 1960s/70s.
Three things have piqued my interest in this. The New England Journal of Medicine case study on the accident in which John Yasaitis was impaled by an eight on the Charles River (the eight actually went through his back and emerged through his abdomen)
like the head of a hammerhead shark.
Finally, I took the ball off my '65 Phelps to see how it was attached and it was weird. It looks as if the ball was hammered onto the copper sprit which then flared to lock it in place. Once the ball was off the sprit (is that the right term?) looked
the incident. In addition, in his history of 1st Trinity BC (https://www.firstandthird.org/club/1sttrinhistory.shtml#S113) published in 1908, W. Ball associates the introduction of bow balls with the fatality, so they must have been common in the early
I'm curious about the development of this technology.
Marc
Marc Messing
RowSafeUSA.Org
The dangers of not having some protection were apparent a long time ago; there was a fatality in the late 19th century caused by a rower being impaled in the Cambridge bumps:
https://cweb1.clare.cam.ac.uk/news/2018115342-Oar+Donated+from+the+1888+Bumps+Tragedy.html
The 'subsequently' in the text doesn't say how rapidly the addition of bow balls followed on the incident. but I seem to remember reading a copy of a letter written by the boy's father shortly after the event saying that at least some good had come of
On 20/05/2021 08:48, DandR Tracey wrote:abdomen) noted that the lowball was knocked off in the accident. Then a comment appeared from someone else who had experience as similar accident (and survived, as did Yasiatis).
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 3:23:53 PM UTC+1, Marc Messing wrote:
Can anyone offer information about the history of bowballs?
When were they first introduced? When did FISA/USR first require them in regattas? What actually led to FISA/USR requiring them?
My understanding is that they came into use with jury-rigged balls in the 1960s/70s.
Three things have piqued my interest in this. The New England Journal of Medicine case study on the accident in which John Yasaitis was impaled by an eight on the Charles River (the eight actually went through his back and emerged through his
looked like the head of a hammerhead shark.
Finally, I took the ball off my '65 Phelps to see how it was attached and it was weird. It looks as if the ball was hammered onto the copper sprit which then flared to lock it in place. Once the ball was off the sprit (is that the right term?)
of the incident. In addition, in his history of 1st Trinity BC (https://www.firstandthird.org/club/1sttrinhistory.shtml#S113) published in 1908, W. Ball associates the introduction of bow balls with the fatality, so they must have been common in the
I'm curious about the development of this technology.
Marc
Marc Messing
RowSafeUSA.Org
The dangers of not having some protection were apparent a long time ago; there was a fatality in the late 19th century caused by a rower being impaled in the Cambridge bumps:
https://cweb1.clare.cam.ac.uk/news/2018115342-Oar+Donated+from+the+1888+Bumps+Tragedy.html
The 'subsequently' in the text doesn't say how rapidly the addition of bow balls followed on the incident. but I seem to remember reading a copy of a letter written by the boy's father shortly after the event saying that at least some good had come
Thank you for clarifying the date of the Cambridge bumps fatality -
seems I was 40-50 years late. Even so, many shells, from eights to
singles, continued without bow balls into the 1950s.
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It seems that after the Cambridge incident bow balls were written in to the local rules of racing for Cambridge University, and subsequently Oxford, at least for 8s and 4s, and included a provision of a 1 guinea fine for non compliance (£100 in todaysmoney), documented in the CUBC rules re-printed in the 1897 'Classic Guide to Rowing' (from a 2016 reprint) .
Though I do recall seeing a photo of a sculler from a Victorian era Thames club that was captioned "a 5 Guinea fine was levied for a gentleman improperly attired on the water ..jacket, tie and cap being compulsory", so maybe they didn't rate safetymore seriously than we do....
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