I need some oar sleeves for a quick day trip. Don't have a boat shop close, and no time to drive. Any thoughts on what sort of homemade diy options I could MacGyver with at home materials? I was thinking of using some rubber I had left from vibration isolation and duct tape, or maybe use some pvc pipe and slip it on and duct tape. It's flat water for one day. What say you?
Bicycle tubes make a good oar to frame attachment that still has some maneuverability. Criss cross them around the oar tower/frame and the oar until it has the tension you need and just tie the ends in a square knot. Take a spare in case you miss judge and one snaps.
The duct tape will probably start disintegrating almost immediately. I wrapped mine with 3/16 poly and then epoxied the ends to keep it from fraying or loosening.
Took less than half an hour per shaft and I am now something like 60 days in and expect them to go another several years. Easy to do in the kitchen with the shaft over the back of a couple of chairs and I didn't even get to beer #2 before I was finished.
Permanent doesn't have to mean slow and fast doesn't mean temporary.
Now that I think about it, you might have posted that last year....but I can't believe he went into so much effort on his serving mallet to then use yellow polypro!
His new oars use a step up from polypro, but honestly, the polypro is super durable. The exotic wood used for the mallet was a left over chunk from another project. It's real pretty and sits on a shelf in his living room.
I've just seen polypro get really brittle and splintery with UV exposure...but I guess if they're only out when in use, it would be a pretty bomber wrap.
Go self-bailing for sure if you want to use it in whitewater. Mine's self-bailing except for the passenger footwells.
I did these Carlisle‘s by hand and then to seal them you want to spray shellac on them and let them dry in the sun. There are several write ups and videos on mountain buzz and YouTube. Super easy go for it.
MT4Runner thanks for sharing your wrap mallet and the way you did it I've always wrapped my own oars and I need to replace the wraps on my runners. This will be much easier. By the way I used a sledge to pull the tail through originally.
Cheers
MontanaLaz;748889
Dory? To self-bail or not?[/QUOTE said:
Both my Dories self bail, Bears Ears has a pump that drains the entire boat, front and rear footwells too, Ashkii, my newest little boat drains the oarsman's footwell. If you don't make it bailing the first go around, you'll be modifying it later !
Thank that blogger friend of the others for the modern redux. 🙂
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