Friday, October 3, 2008

Thinking About Oars

JD will be here soon to help with installing the garboards.  I haven't been in the boat shop much since they've been finished, but I've been doing some research into oars.  

I've found a few recomendations for the leverage ratio an oar should have, but the concensus seems to be that you should find an oar that is comfortable and moves your boat along well.  So much for formulas.

Maybe instead of jumping into building three sets, I'll build one set at a time so we can test them.

1 comment:

moon dog said...

or maybe you should just build three sets, all different. then when it comes times to test them out, and one set works best, we can have something to give as a reward to the best cook, best story teller, best landfall estimator, etc...