Oars?

[Jan-Einar]

Hi all,

In my mind I do play with a silly idea :

• An afternoon to weekend boat,
• For use on rivers and reservoirs,
• Up to 4 adults (max.)
• Small cabin or big dodger,
• Able to sail,
• Easy maintenance and trailoring.

Okay, there are some dutch sloeps for sailing: Antaris RB22 Regatta or Damarin Grand Coast 19 or 21.
But these boats are displacing 0.8 to 1.5 tons and are powered (when not sailing) by inboard diesel!

So no effortless launching and on a lot of (drinking water) reservoirs you may use everything but not a combustion engine.
And then there is the attention / care / cost of any mechanical propulsion (even electric) which makes me think:

WHY NOT OARS?

I did some sliding-seat rowing for fun while at university and would be comfortable in moving a boat like that.

But are there any figures on what displacement maximum would still be possible?
Thanks for some ideas, my educated guess would be kg 800.

There are some ocean-going rowing dinghies but they are a somewhat different track than my idea.

Thanks in advance,
Jan-Einar

[alan white]

Look at a sea pearl, also an alpha or beachcomber dory.

[thudpucker]

I know this post is old, but Oars are not a bad idea at all. I have a small boat I row on a Resivour, and I made a "Rolling Rowing seat" for two reasons.

One for reaching things in the front and back of the boat without getting up, and the second for the hi speed rowing.

With my moving seat, you get two more feet per stroke on the oars.
I also put in an extra set of oarlock sockets to row from the back, for more accuracy or from the front in case the load is greater.







Those are Roller Skate wheels. You can find luggage wheels, Inline Skate wheels, and Skate board wheels.
The last drawing is my almost finished new construction.
I found some Aluminum Channel. I'll find wheels to go inside that channel and wont have to worry about the seat being so balky at times.