We still row too. It's quieter, less expensive, offers one less thing to fix
and it's great exercise. I'll never go back to the inflatable with the gas
burner. The quiet wanderings in safe harbours is now one of the best parts
of our cruising!

"Glenn A. Heslop" wrote in message
news:9zeJf.28181$sa3.20083@pd7tw1no...
Steeling Oars? I must say...when I've been seen rowing...for fun and
excercise in my porta-bote in a sub-tropical climate...I recall other
sailors in the anchorage remenicing back decades when they last rowed a
boat...they inquired as to if my outboard was broken. A rather strange
look
appeared when I happily stated that my outboard was working fine, stored
on
the aft-rail of my sailboat...I was simply rowing for the fun...for the
pure
joy of rowing in the late afternoon, under the tropical sun. I think they
thought the tropical sun'd cooked my brain...maybe it has...

Glenn.
s/v Seawing
www.seawing.net


"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message
oups.com...
I'm taking delivery of my bote tomorrow. If I'm successful, I'll have
converted it to sculling (10' carbon fiber oars with shovel scoop ends)
sometime in the next few days (stay tuned for pictures in the gallery).
Those oars are worth half what the boat is...


How do any of you who have such an issue secure your oars from theft?

Thanks.

L8R

Skip

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

From the boat, on googlegroups, I don't have the same utility as at
home with usenet, so I apologize about this being unrelated via quotes
from the others...

I was a competitive oarsman in college, and took up sculling later so I
didn't have to rely on anyone else.

I sold the competition single and the recreational double, but, along
the way, I'd accumulated enough sets of sculls that the guy I sold the
Olympus to didn't want the spare set of Macons (scoop, rather than
hatchet, blades) - so I kept them.

Further, these are made with a three-sides-flat sleeve and an
adjustable collar (for length of leverage) at the fulcrum, made to go
in a square clip-top-bail oarlock which rides on a 1/2" SS post. The
former allows accurate setting against the oarlock, whether feathered
or working. The latter allows oar removal, while leaving the
substantial (strong, that is) piece of gear which takes the stress of
rowing (which piece of plastic is also adjustable for angle of attack
when being set up). So, unless I were to find some bronze rings
(anyone salvaging out a merry-go-round? Oh. Those are too small?
Darn!) to go over the shaft (and rattle around at the end while I was
rowing, I've got to figure out some other way of security.

I'd thought about a cable with loops of the appropriate length
nicropressed into them so that they could be looped tightly around the
oars and a longer section run through something - but what?? on a
Portabote - with all the loops being intersected by a lock.

So, if I were to do that (simple enough and cheap), where on a PB does
one hoook it that can't be just unpinned and off-you-go, to deal with
the nuisance of clipping off the cable later?

Meanwhile, to the question of the long oars, see my next post ...

Thanks for the discussion. Back on the boat doing more work...

Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
http://tinyurl.com/384p2 The vessel as Tehamana, as we bought her

"Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely
nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing,
messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats.
In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter,
that's the charm of it.
Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never
get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to
do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."