hugh says:

let me get this straight... you're planning to row a boat that's carrying
300kg of people plus their gear?

That's only 3 reasonable adults plus soakage. ;-)
Not that painful with a good Whitehall-style boat beneath you. With a
flattie.....

Are unreasonable adults heavier or lighter?
;-)

"Stephen Baker" wrote
hugh says:
let me get this straight... you're planning to row a boat that's carrying
300kg of people plus their gear?

That's only 3 reasonable adults plus soakage. ;-)
Not that painful with a good Whitehall-style boat beneath you. With a
flattie.....

Paul Squire asks with a smile:

Are unreasonable adults heavier or lighter?
;-)

Heavier - they carry too much baggage and have large chips on their shoulders.
;-)

No... it's 2 adults, 5 kids, two dogs, plus a long list of gear. that's what
he said in the original post. there's no way in the world that will all fit
in a 17' whitehall style rowboat. to have a narrow boat carry that lot
you'd need 20+ feet, or a shorter boat with a big beam. in either case,
rowing is going to be a LOT of work, especially since he wants a boat that
can deal with potentially rough coastal conditions. you're not getting me
off any coast i know with 7 people and 2 dogs and a bunch of gear in any
whitehall style boat i've ever seen.....

hugh


"Stephen Baker" wrote in message
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hugh says:

let me get this straight... you're planning to row a boat that's carrying
300kg of people plus their gear?

That's only 3 reasonable adults plus soakage. ;-)
Not that painful with a good Whitehall-style boat beneath you. With a
flattie.....

Hugh says:

No... it's 2 adults, 5 kids, two dogs, plus a long list of gear. that's what
he said in the original post.

Yup. I was really just mentally totting up the weight and equating it to
multiples of easily-imagined weight units ;-)

17ft does sound small, but 20 feet should do it. Rowing that weight is not
that painfull with two grown folks doing the work. I have been quite happy
rowing my sister and two grown children around in an 18' whitehall-type boat.
Adding another adult and two small kids shouldn't be too bad if the other adult
is working too.

Steve
Stephen C. Baker - Yacht Designer
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