Re: Oar lock design, plastic pipe flotation
I finally made 12" x 1" ash pins that go into a 3/4" spruce plate at
gunwale level and into a spruce socket 8" lower on the side. I made
1/2" loops out of one strand of 1/2" 3-strand polyester to hold the
oars. If it goes well I'll make one thole pin also for the stern to
scull the boat.
I am launching 2 identical Teals some time this week. I made one poly
sail to serve as a prototype. I changed the rig to a boomless (for
now) standing lug with a bit more sail area (65sqft) than the
original leg-o-mutton.
Has anyone experimented flotation on small dinghies with a piece of
large diameter black plastic pipe (or similar) plugged (folded,
thermo-welded, etc.) at the ends and attached to the outside of the
gunwales? I'd like to hear about that. I don't want to clutter the
inside of the boats with flotation.
Thierry
gunwale level and into a spruce socket 8" lower on the side. I made
1/2" loops out of one strand of 1/2" 3-strand polyester to hold the
oars. If it goes well I'll make one thole pin also for the stern to
scull the boat.
I am launching 2 identical Teals some time this week. I made one poly
sail to serve as a prototype. I changed the rig to a boomless (for
now) standing lug with a bit more sail area (65sqft) than the
original leg-o-mutton.
Has anyone experimented flotation on small dinghies with a piece of
large diameter black plastic pipe (or similar) plugged (folded,
thermo-welded, etc.) at the ends and attached to the outside of the
gunwales? I'd like to hear about that. I don't want to clutter the
inside of the boats with flotation.
Thierry
Just came from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor
VT. Great place with lots of nice old wooden boats! Five of us went
out for a row in a gorgeous 16' Whitehall (one of 4) that used single
thole pins with a short rope loop holding the oars snug. Never
having rowed without oar locks or 2 thole pins, I was quite skeptical
of how well this system would work, but I found rowing this way
actually easier than with double thole pins or with oarlocks. The
pin was 4" above the gunwale and about the thickness of a broomstick,
and the loop was a 1/2" hemp line (clothesline would work just fine)
tied at a length that would allow it to make a double loop around oar
shaft and thole pin with about 1" of play. It was quiet and smooth--
none of the clankety-clank you get with metal oarlocks. Nobody caught
a crab in about 1/2 hour of rowing. I am going to set this single
thole pin system up on my Micro. I use two 10' crew sweeps with
double thole pins, held down with bungee, which enables me to row
quite satisfactorily in winds below 10 knots. I have caught crabs
with the double pins though. The wooden thole pins look way better
than oar locks. They seem safer too, when boarding/deboarding at a
dock or another boat.
--Rob Gogan
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Thierry Msika" <thierry.msika@l...>
wrote:
VT. Great place with lots of nice old wooden boats! Five of us went
out for a row in a gorgeous 16' Whitehall (one of 4) that used single
thole pins with a short rope loop holding the oars snug. Never
having rowed without oar locks or 2 thole pins, I was quite skeptical
of how well this system would work, but I found rowing this way
actually easier than with double thole pins or with oarlocks. The
pin was 4" above the gunwale and about the thickness of a broomstick,
and the loop was a 1/2" hemp line (clothesline would work just fine)
tied at a length that would allow it to make a double loop around oar
shaft and thole pin with about 1" of play. It was quiet and smooth--
none of the clankety-clank you get with metal oarlocks. Nobody caught
a crab in about 1/2 hour of rowing. I am going to set this single
thole pin system up on my Micro. I use two 10' crew sweeps with
double thole pins, held down with bungee, which enables me to row
quite satisfactorily in winds below 10 knots. I have caught crabs
with the double pins though. The wooden thole pins look way better
than oar locks. They seem safer too, when boarding/deboarding at a
dock or another boat.
--Rob Gogan
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Thierry Msika" <thierry.msika@l...>
wrote:
> I need help for a neat oar lock design for a Teal.
> If I buy some at the store
> A I won't be happy about the quality
> B they will cost me more than the hull (well almost)
>
> I like the closed ones so can't loose them.
>
> I have used a Bolger design made out of 1/2" ply used for another
> boat but they are too flimsy and grind the oars.
>
> Maybe has someone an idea.
>
> Cheers
>
> Thierry
Check out the oarlock section in the Duckworks Store. Here's the link.
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/store/hardware/oarlocks.htm
Bryant
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Thierry Msika" <thierry.msika@l...>
wrote:
http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/store/hardware/oarlocks.htm
Bryant
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, "Thierry Msika" <thierry.msika@l...>
wrote:
> I need help for a neat oar lock design for a Teal.
> If I buy some at the store
> A I won't be happy about the quality
> B they will cost me more than the hull (well almost)
>
> I like the closed ones so can't loose them.
>
> I have used a Bolger design made out of 1/2" ply used for another
> boat but they are too flimsy and grind the oars.
>
> Maybe has someone an idea.
>
> Cheers
>
> Thierry
I have seen very inexpensive nylon locks, but I have no experience with them. I learned to row on a Boston Whaler Squall and, like you, I was too broke back then to buy oarlocks (the boat came with sockets, but no locks). I whittled a couple of oak thole pins which I jammed in the sockets. A loose loop of line served to locate the oar. Bolger describes single thole pins in an article "On Rowing" in his book Small Boats and shows a variation on his "Recreational Rowboat" in The Folding Schooner .
Good luck.
John T
Good luck.
John T
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From: Thierry Msika
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Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: [bolger] Oar lock design
I need help for a neat oar lock design for a Teal.
If I buy some at the store
A I won't be happy about the quality
B they will cost me more than the hull (well almost)
I like the closed ones so can't loose them.
I have used a Bolger design made out of 1/2" ply used for another
boat but they are too flimsy and grind the oars.
Maybe has someone an idea.
Cheers
Thierry
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I just put a string on the bottom of the lock, and tie a straight piece
of wire with a loop in the middle to the string. The wire drops in thru
the socket but won't come out again unless I line it up, so it captures
the lock nicely. Even better is probably to use the commercially
available chains. Anyway, that's why the lock has a little hole on the
bottom.
of wire with a loop in the middle to the string. The wire drops in thru
the socket but won't come out again unless I line it up, so it captures
the lock nicely. Even better is probably to use the commercially
available chains. Anyway, that's why the lock has a little hole on the
bottom.
>Thierry Msika wrote:
>
>I need help for a neat oar lock design for a Teal.
>If I buy some at the store
>A I won't be happy about the quality
>B they will cost me more than the hull (well almost)
>
>I like the closed ones so can't loose them.
>
>I have used a Bolger design made out of 1/2" ply used for another
>boat but they are too flimsy and grind the oars.
>
>Maybe has someone an idea.
>
>Cheers
>
>Thierry
>
I need help for a neat oar lock design for a Teal.
If I buy some at the store
A I won't be happy about the quality
B they will cost me more than the hull (well almost)
I like the closed ones so can't loose them.
I have used a Bolger design made out of 1/2" ply used for another
boat but they are too flimsy and grind the oars.
Maybe has someone an idea.
Cheers
Thierry
If I buy some at the store
A I won't be happy about the quality
B they will cost me more than the hull (well almost)
I like the closed ones so can't loose them.
I have used a Bolger design made out of 1/2" ply used for another
boat but they are too flimsy and grind the oars.
Maybe has someone an idea.
Cheers
Thierry