has anyone ever experimented with rowing the vega. looks perfectly suitable if you had the right length oars and a bucket or crossmember to sit on while you rowed. if so what length oars did you use and how did it work out.
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You wouldn't sit, you'd stand, facing forward. Herreshoff rowed the Rozinante Ketch while standing facing forward, with the cockpit long enough to step into the stroke a step or two. It's in The Compleat Cruiser. He could get 2 knots for a half hour or so, 1.5 kts for two hours. He used but one sweep (big oar), 12 or 14 feet, and found that suitable. You'd want a plenty long oar. Maybe contact oar and paddle makers Shaw and Tenney in Oldtown, Maine, they know everything about oars and rowing and specing the oar to the craft.
The Rozinante is no doubt more easily driven than a Vega, but you could row one I bet. Try it and tell us how it goes!Nicholas H. Walsh P.A.
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has anyone ever experimented with rowing the vega. looks perfectly suitable if you had the right length oars and a bucket or crossmember to sit on while you rowed. if so what length oars did you use and how did it work out.
The Rozinante is no doubt more easily driven than a Vega, but you could row one I bet. Try it and tell us how it goes!Nicholas H. Walsh P.A.
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Subject: [AlbinVega] rowing
has anyone ever experimented with rowing the vega. looks perfectly suitable if you had the right length oars and a bucket or crossmember to sit on while you rowed. if so what length oars did you use and how did it work out.
Last summer, while sailing into the mooring field to pick up a mooring, the wind absolutely died. We were about 15 feet from the breakwall. As I leaned forward to start the motor, I spied the oars for our dinghy on the starboard setee. At that very moment, a thought came to me (they always come up at the most in-opportune times), I jumped into the cabin, grabbed one of the oars, dashed back up, hung over the side and started rowing. I only needed to go about 300-400 feet, but I rowed right up to the ball.
When our volvo finally decides to move into the afterlife, or when I get tired of preventative and corrective maintenance, an outboard and sweeps are on the to-do list. My only concern is that while a approaching a weather shore, in a tight harbor, with 35 knot winds, it might be a little difficult to get into the harbor.
Jack
Bella - V2620
When our volvo finally decides to move into the afterlife, or when I get tired of preventative and corrective maintenance, an outboard and sweeps are on the to-do list. My only concern is that while a approaching a weather shore, in a tight harbor, with 35 knot winds, it might be a little difficult to get into the harbor.
Jack
Bella - V2620
If I remember correctly, Lin and Larry Pardey used a sculling oar to move their heavy boat Seraffyn along at 1-2 knots.
Here is a link to a guy that put oars on a smaller boat, a Pearson Ariel:A Pearson Ariel Page
Here's a link on sculling:http://www.woodenboat.net.nz/Stories/Sculling/scullone.html
I have to believe that an Vega would be a lot easier to scull along than this boat:
Here is a link to a guy that put oars on a smaller boat, a Pearson Ariel:A Pearson Ariel Page
Here's a link on sculling:http://www.woodenboat.net.nz/Stories/Sculling/scullone.html
I have to believe that an Vega would be a lot easier to scull along than this boat:
This has been on my list for a long time . . . On the Tern an oarlock, with a bit of plastic hose over the shaft, will drop into the top of the cockpit winch where the handle goes. Standing and facing forward I think one could row quite easily provided the oars were long enough, about 13 feet I think. I would want to make oars that break down for storage. I haven't tried this yet but it is on my list. Craig
maybe i{ll start with some long bamboo poles in the begining, and experiment with it. considering the freeboard and weight of the vega, i think it would work. i went out practicing my close quarter maneuvering with the vega the other day trying to ensure that i wouldn{t have any problems transiting the canal. but i still havent figured out reverse enough to feel cofortable backing in any tight situations, thats when i got the idea of a long pole or even oars. not for anything other than possibly turning or reversing in tight situations, or even engine failure. as far as i can envision, the only place for storage of the oars would be the lifelines , so i like the idea of sectional oars.
K.L.Magee
K.L.Magee