lenten
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i have a heavy outboard powered 15 x 6 feet open boat with 10 feet oars----in an emergency i could see using them to add extra momentum going with the tide-----very hard work rowing against
Adding sweeps to a trailer sailer?
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William_H
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My little 21fter has a stern rail that extends forward from the stern by about 1metre. This junction of the vertical and the deck makes a rowlock for 2 long paddles/oars. They need to be long to get conveniently to water level. I can squat in the cokpit to pull the oars though a seat across would be better. Or I could fit rowlocks further forward. Even a loop of rope attached to the gunwhale. Anyway as it is she rows quite well in still conditions. Sufficient that i have left the o/b home now for many years. She sails well too. To the OP I say yes give it a try. ol'will
prv
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I've tried it with a short dinghy oar over the transom of my inflatable. Worked well enough to make progress, but hilariously inefficient in that boat compared to normal rowing. I can see threading through the moorings in a calm harbour, standing up in an easily-driven traditional dinghy - even better if I were to take up pipe-smoking and turn the world sepia
- but for the OP's boat I reckon I'd start with leaning forwards against a pair of more or less conventional oars. Pete
Allan
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I've not read all of the thread so hope I'm not repeating this. My Etap 22i had a raised and angled place to put a rowlock on the transom. As I had a dinghy outboard on a transom bracket I never bothered to drill through the marked holes. I saw a similar boat in France with one fitted. Allan
prv
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As someone else said, it used to be required by French law for boats under a certain size. That will be why the moulding had provision for it but your UK boat didn't have one installed.
Pete
duncan99210
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OK, maybe slightly off tack but Pilot Gig oars are 3.9m long. Freeboard on a gig is about 2/3 that of my Hurley 18, so the oar would come much too high into the boat to be able to sit and row but would be a good height to stand and row, either with a single oar or a pair. For rowlocks, use a loop of rope round the oar taken back to the pushpit fitting with a lighter line taken forward to a stanchion to stop the oar moving back on the recovery.
With a long enough set of oars and a cockpit you can move in, I’d reckon it’d be easy enough to get the boat moving nicely. If you visit your local sea/coastal rowing club, you might get them to loan you a pair of oars to experiment with.
With a long enough set of oars and a cockpit you can move in, I’d reckon it’d be easy enough to get the boat moving nicely. If you visit your local sea/coastal rowing club, you might get them to loan you a pair of oars to experiment with.
oz-1
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Hi Steve, yes my boat is a flicka, but instead of 20 foot length on deck, i had Fred Bingham ( Bruce Bingham's father ) increase the length of my flicka to 22 feet on deck. So now she is 21 feet 9 inches on deck, 8 foot beam and draws 3 fee 6 inches of water, weighs 3.5 tons with 1.2 tons of lead for ballast. The sweeps were 11 feet long. Although it was a fair distance from Salcombe to Torquay, once the boat got moving, it didn't take much effort to keep her going.