[Public-List] sculling

[Meinhold, Michael J.]

Two people with long canoe paddles can get a good 2 knots out of an A30 on a calm day


Pat and I have rowed her around the marina from winter to summer slip

The problem is making her stop!

Mike
Rinn Duin #272

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Having been a cox' on the Cornell University Crew, back when the Big Red 
was truly a power in the sport, I am familiar with the techniques 
(though I just steered and yelled). But sculling a small boat, or even a 
30 foot Alberg, is a great deal different.  I can't really see rowing 
like rowing  either a racing shell or even a rowboat, though possibly if 
oarlock sockets were installed in the cockpit and there were two people 
rowing, you might get somewhere. I have paddled with a canoe paddle a 
lot better when becalmed and out of  engine power. Sculling however 
involves a single oar off the stern and a technique of essentially 
waving the oar back and forth with a rotary motion. You're not going to 
go very fast, but you can make forward progress if you do it right. An 
oarlock would be a great help.

- Gordon White
Brigadoon II
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