When your boat is resting securely on the floor or level ground rig a temporary seat, then take an oar and by experiment find just where the rowlock will be most convenient and mark the spot.
On each side of the spot marked for the rowlock cut two notches in the side-boards two inches deep, one and a half inch wide, and three inches apart.
Saw two more notches of the same size 3 inches from the first; these will make the rowlock when the side strips have been fastened on.
Someone had neglected to slip this piece of wood into the rowlock which held me by the foot.
When naval cutters are under sail the rowlock fittings are filled up with a piece of wood, which corresponds to the fitting.
A rowlock may be too high or too low; it may rake one way or other, and so spoil the plane of the oar in the water.
Yesterday he was complaining that his rowlock was too high, and he had leave to lower it accordingly.
The outrigged gig is liable to entanglement of rowlock in locks, and where craft are crowded, as at regattas.
A sculler requires a wider rowlock than an oarsman, because his scull goes forward to an acuter angle than an oar, with the same reach of body.
Detractors used to laugh sometimes to see him chalk off his seats, and say, 'A rowlock here--a seat there.
He broke a rowlock before he landed, and had to use the substitute we had hung beside it.
Two or three miles below this I had some difficulty in a rapid, as the pin of a rowlock lifted out of the socket when in the middle of rough water.
Inside the usual rowlock a heavy ring was hung, kept in place by strong set-screws, but allowing full play in every direction.
Illustration] A scull is a small oar used with one hand, and requiring a pair, as in the case of oars, one being placed in the rowlock on each side the boat, and the pair being used by one person with his right and left hands.
The rowlocknearest the bow is called the bow rowlock, or No.
My first boat had not an ounce of metal in her barring rowlocks and rowlock sockets, and she cost me 17s.
Each rowlock was formed of two pieces of ash screwed to the gunwale, as seen in the preceding engraving; and two oars and a lug sail completed the equipment.
To put it in other words, it is far easier with a fixed rowlock to get a square, firm, clean grip of the beginning, and for the same reason it is easier to bring your oar square and clean out at the end of the stroke.
The advocates of swivels contend that by their use the hands are eased on the recovery, and the jar that takes place when the oar turns on a fixedrowlock is absolutely abolished.
The two rowlocks can be made by a blacksmith, and it would be well if a rowlock could be borrowed as a pattern from which he can work.
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