AlumaCraft Aluminum Boat Oars

[20mercman]

quote Mumbles:

I don’t think the skis would float very well. There’s probably lots of them on lake bottoms!

I saw a pair of these for sale at Tomahawk a few years ago, the fist ones I have seen. I would hope that they have an air chamber in them to keep them afloat, but if not, then I would change your supposition from "lots of them on the lake bottoms!" to "MOST" 😆

Steve

[bill-loveland]

Yes, they’re formed of thin skins of aluminum welded together to form a flotation chamber – same as the oars

same as the seats too – that why you want to be careful if you’re looking at an alumacraft that somebody’s poked holes in the seats – I cringe when I see boats for sale that have been "improved" with bolted on seats

[hdted]

For $500 you could buy a nice old outboard. Then you wouldn’t need the oars.

[david-bartlett]

quote hdted:

For $500 you could buy a nice old outboard. Then you wouldn’t need the oars.

I never go out without my oars. Even the best old motors can quit unexpectedly.

[westwind]

I suspect they are hollow like the oars, welded around the perimeter like a gas tank. I’d love to have a set of oars or ski’s like that for my Alumacraft’s, not that I would pay $500 though.

[The Boat House]

quote david bartlett:

I never go out without my oars. Even the best old motors can quit unexpectedly.

That’s the reason I always take my aluminum power oar with me.

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quote david bartlett:

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For $500 you could buy a nice old outboard. Then you wouldn’t need the oars.

I never go out without my oars. Even the best old motors can quit unexpectedly.

All the boating I do is on the river I live on and the current is fairly strong. Oars would be useless trying to go upstream. I like Tubs idea about taking an aluminum power oar.

[pm-t2]

Nothing involving an AlumaCraft is easy to sink….. even when full of rain water…..

FWIW – My oars float, I’ve tested them.

PM T2

[20mercman]

It depends upon where we are going. If I am going on Lake Michigan, I have an auxiliary motor. If I had a brand new motor, I would still want a spare on a lake like that. When we are working the bugs out of a motor, we often bring a spare along as well. A 2.5 Elgin or a Lightwin are perfect for that. If I have my 18′, it has a spare Mercury 20 on it, but with the 14′ or the 12, (The 12′ Crestliner only has room for one motor on the transom anyway and no real storage inside for a spare.) We have oars in the 14′ boat all the time, and a paddle in the Crestliner. Had to use them twice this year. Once when we spun a prop on the FD-10 on the opposite side of the lake! Once again when we ran out of dinosaur juice. 🙄

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