Too Narrow A typical canoe has a 36" beam and is too narrow for oarlocks on the gunwales. A drop-in rowing rig has outriggers and a sliding...
Heavy What you don't want is a 250 Lbs varnished wooden beamy lapstrake boat.
Longer is Better This is the era of the personal watercraft (PWC), which, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, is "not a boat", and is therefore...
A pram is not a scow. Putting a pram bow on a hull does not make it a scow. A scow is double-ended in profile view rather than in plan view....
Yes, re-spacing the stations works well. At Swiftships in Morgan City, Louisiana, that's how the 85-foot aluminum crewboat became the 100-foot...
The Portsmouth Yardstick rating for a Moth is 107. The Portsmouth Yardstick rating for a C-Scow is 79. They're not even on the same planet.
"none of them could create a scow that would keep up with the conventionally-shaped boats" proves that they did not understand the concept of the...
The scow is a double-ended boat in profile, rather than in plan view, When the scow heels over, the waterlines develop well-balanced asymmetry....
The civilizations that took up rowing did much better than the civilizations that stayed with paddling.
Blackburn times I did the Blackburn in 5 hours, in round numbers, both years. The winners did it in half that time. 2 young corn-fed gorillas...
Rowing Canoe My rowboat is a 23-foot Minnesota IV my Winonah in Minnesota. The kevlar canoe weighs 65 Lbs, and I use it in the salt water of...
Double Enders The scow is a double-ended boat in profile, rather than in plan view, When the scow heels over, the waterlines develop...
