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Started by boblamb, January 06, 2013, 08:59:06 AM

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boblamb

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Engineless sailing sources

January 06, 2013, 08:59:06 AM

Ahoy mateys
I'm looking for some info on manually powering my 23. (Rowing/sculling/yuluing/etc. Anybody know of some sources?

BL

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January 06, 2013, 10:16:48 AM

A couple of links;

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

http://www.woodenboat.net.nz/Stories/Sculling/scullthree.htm

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January 06, 2013, 06:29:22 PM

I used to scull my engineless `59 Frisco Flyer. If the winds were less than 5knots and no current, I could make about 1/2 knot.

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