Not quite, at the age of five I struggled to paddle a canoe made by my Dad from the wing tank of a WW2 fighter plane. Not long after I found myself straining to row clinker hire boats on the promise that I would bail them free of water. Often the water would flow in …
Lighter & Stronger Oar Shaft It is more by accident than design I have arrived at an efficient and radical way of making a stiff, light shaft. The cross sectional shape goes by the rather awkward name of “isosceles trapezoid” (an isosceles triangle with the apex cut off). It was while I was playing around …