Oarsome!

Not satisfied with the repair workload incurred by Ulla’s storm damage our resident Skiffologists, Topher and John, have been exploring efficiencies of oars – within the limits of the SCRA rules of course – and have been looking to the natural world for possible solutions.  A sneak preview of one of the development models can be seen below, a hollow shaft with canted blade complete with vortex generators. Incredibly light and amazingly strong. They could be even better in Carbon Fibre but the rules say wood. We doubt the Skiffie Spiritualists will approve but  these oars are within the letter of the rules! The only non wooden part is the pivot bolt which is merely there to allow for varying cant angle untill experimentation determines the most effective angle when a glued joint will replace it on the production run.

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