B, Saw a Youtube video by a guy who mounted a rotationg oarlock tube on his transom, into which he inserted a longish aluminum oar with a flexible swim fin at the end. Basically, it works like a tuna tail fin, which has pretty good drive. Apparently no fancy rotation of the oar is necessary--just a fairly low-amplitude back and forth sculling. His boat was a largish inflatable sailboat, which is probably a toad to shove in displacement mode, and he was easily surpassing 2 knots or more. Hmmm. Tom Jenkins On Nov 26, 2012, at 1:48 PM, bownez@juno.com wrote:
I played around with making a mount for a long oar for the transom on my M17. I tried it in the North Channel when I was up with the Monty flotilla several years ago. All it seemed to do was fishtale the boat with little forward progress. I KNOW I was not performing the correct lift, twist, shake, etc to the driving oar. I would like to figure it out sometime. I still have the oar and mount. Doug Keltch was watching me, I'm sure he was having a good chuckle.
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