Posted by Peter Taylor on
URL: https://forum.mymorbic.uk/Oars-tp235p237.html

Hi Marc,
I'm about at the same stage as you - painting and finishing seems to go on forever and I too am looking forward to leaving behind my narrow garage with less than a foot clearance each side of the boat!

I also plan to go the thole pin route. Looking the plans it seems that it is the 35mm face of the bull into which you have to drill a 20mm hole and you carve out that hole generously length wise wrt to the bull to give more oar movement. I have had cause to blow up the drawings on my laptop screen to check dimensions like this. I zoom out on a marked up dimension until it matches the actual dimensions as measured by my plastic rule (to avoid scratching the screen), then I simply drag the part I want to measure until visible on the screen and read off the required dimension. You just have to be careful you don't accidentally zoom whilst dragging the image across the screen.

Hope that helps.

PS - how many screws have you used to secure your lug-only mast step and where have you put them?

All the best

Peter