Since I built the Snowgoose, I?ve always wanted to have a set of oars as an engine backup. Given the beam of the boat, the oars need to be pretty long and there is no place to store oars that long in a decked boat. Break down oars in sufficient quality to get home when you really needed to put your back into it were too expensive.
I gave up on that idea a bought a kicker, since it was more compact. The allure of oars was always there. When we bought our river raft a couple years ago it needed high quality break down oars to get into a plane and a plan was hatched.
I built saddles that drop onto the 5/4 mahogany combings. The saddles needed to be higher than the combing for clearance.
Modified a set of oar locks to accept the large Cataract oars I have.
Deployed. The remaining step is paint and drilling a hole to serve as a pin once I determine balance. Until then a C clamp will serve to lock them in. To be honest, I'll probably never finish them beyond what I've done, however.
Parts ready to be stowed.
Metal and wood parts packaged to be stowed under deck.
As for the belt AND suspenders? I still have the kicker and the mount I made many years ago to attach it. It needed a little work after banging around for years, so I sanded it and resealed to be stowed again.
I gave up on that idea a bought a kicker, since it was more compact. The allure of oars was always there. When we bought our river raft a couple years ago it needed high quality break down oars to get into a plane and a plan was hatched.
I built saddles that drop onto the 5/4 mahogany combings. The saddles needed to be higher than the combing for clearance.
Modified a set of oar locks to accept the large Cataract oars I have.
Deployed. The remaining step is paint and drilling a hole to serve as a pin once I determine balance. Until then a C clamp will serve to lock them in. To be honest, I'll probably never finish them beyond what I've done, however.
Parts ready to be stowed.
Metal and wood parts packaged to be stowed under deck.
As for the belt AND suspenders? I still have the kicker and the mount I made many years ago to attach it. It needed a little work after banging around for years, so I sanded it and resealed to be stowed again.
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