{"id":6497,"date":"2009-10-21T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:29:32","slug":"rowing-an-inflatable-dinghy-its-the-oars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rowing-an-inflatable-dinghy-its-the-oars\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing an Inflatable Dinghy &#8211; It&#8217;s the Oars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tobermory-scotland-654.jpg\" alt=\"Inflatable Dinghy Oars Tobermory-Scotland-654\" width=\"576\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t see a lot  of inflatables being rowed these days. Most use outboard propulsion. But when the oars are in use those typically supplied by the dinghy builders are of marginal use.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/inflatable-oars-103.jpg\" alt=\"Inflatable--oars-103\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Consider this and the next photo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/inflatable-oars-104.jpg\" alt=\"Inflatable--oars-104\" width=\"576\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The blade area is too small, and the length of the oars inadequate. The short oar shaft forces an inefficient downward angle to the stroke.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is simple; longer oars with bigger blades. The difference will be dramatic, particularly when rowing against a breeze and chop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t see a lot of inflatables being rowed these days. Most use outboard propulsion. But when the oars are <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/rowing-an-inflatable-dinghy-its-the-oars\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}