Oarlock location for weekender?

[Herschel Payne]

Does anyone know where or how I can install oar locks on my weekender? The splash guards seem to be in the way. It would be nice to have a rowing option. Thanks

[Frank Hagan]

A couple of people have equipped the Weekender with oars, but I don't recall how to place the oar locks.  I had to paddle my Weekender a ways once, and like rowing, once I got some momentum it wasn't too hard.  But it was tedious.  Here's a couple of links that have people talking about oars:

Andrew reports the Weekender doesn't row that well:  http://www.messing-about.com/forums/index.php?topic=4253.0

But Buck reports its easy enough to row when you have to, and this pic shows the location of his oar locks: http://www.messing-about.com/forums/index.php?topic=5415.msg46233#msg46233

You might think about using a Yuloh, a single long oar that is used over the transom.  Propelling a boat this way is called "sculling" (the reason I didn't start with that term is that it is also used for competitive rowing with traditional oars in lightweight row boats manned with hung-over college youth). 

Discussions on sculling here on messing-about:

http://www.messing-about.com/forums/index.php?topic=1363.0

http://www.messing-about.com/forums/index.php?topic=7075.0

Here are a couple of articles about it:

http://www.simplicityboats.com/yulohpage.html

http://councill.home.mindspring.com/sbjournal/sculling/scull1.html

http://home.hiwaay.net/~parsons/Howto2.html

Howard evidently has a sculling oar and uses it:

http://www.messing-about.com/forums/index.php?topic=3531.msg29601#msg29601

[Andrew_Butchart]

You'll also notice though that I was trying to row my Weekender backwards in high winds  :?

[Herschel Payne]

Thank you, Frank and Andrew. I purchased 8' oars today and am determined to make this work. I will have to omit the splash coaming. Do you think this will have any negative effect?

[Frank Hagan]

Thank you, Frank and Andrew. I purchased 8' oars today and am determined to make this work. I will have to omit the splash coaming. Do you think this will have any negative effect?

It helps to keep water that gets on the side decks out of the cockpit, but the Weekender is usually a pretty flat sailing boat (I rarely dipped a rail or otherwise got too much water on the side decks).  You only need one an inch or two high once you are back behind the cabin, and you can arrange the oars to clear that easily.

[Andrew_Butchart]

I have the stock splash coaming installed on my boat and it doesn't interfere.

To position my oar locks, I sat in the companionway (the "normal" rowing seat) and found where the oars would naturally rest.  It was several inches aft of the coamings.