RE: Oars for raiding.

Posted by Chris Waite on
URL: http://uk-hbbr-forum.61.s1.nabble.com/Oars-for-raiding-tp3484385p3490717.html

For a fiver, a kind neighbour passed me a lovely pair of tiddly six footers, but with elegant curved blades big enough to drive a Zeppelin:























Extremely good looking, but no practical use in a boat of any size at all -

Tick, tick, tick....    How about I extend the looms?

How about I make demountable extensions that work the same as modern tent poles - hollow tube with elastic down the middle.  It might have to be tightenable rope instead to prevent partition on the high seas, but what a quick way to reduce the length for stowage, rather than having to find a straight eight foot place in a small dinghy.  Better and better - I have an old piece of alloy spar that fits over the handle ends a treat.  

I've just discussed it with 'Polly Wee' and she thinks she might like the idea.  In fact gaffer 'Tit Willow' has a nine foot pair which could be made to work on the same principle.  Much quicker than searching for the right ends from a motley heap of parts, then forcing them together and having to line up clips and such.

I have a dream, a fleet of boats powered by jointed oars

CW