Thanks Connie, I'll follow your lead, at least at the internet level. My boat building projects are getting a bit backed up. I've been making "Greenland Paddles" and I'm just starting a tortured plywood double paddle canoe called "Sweet Dream" and I haven't yet finished the peapod, "Beach Pea" (started 3 boats ago), the boat for which I'm using your trailer and then there's that beautiful little catamaran the Doug Kelch told us about last week. But a yuloh is definitely on my list.
Your for a fair tide, Rick > Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:01:46 -0500 > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: M_Boats: What do you think of Dovekies? > To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi Rick, > > Yesterday I did some homework on "Yuloh" > > If you go to Google and enter "Yuloh" you will find 25 pages of yuloh > information: > > - History > > - Use: The Chinese have used yulohs for centuries to move heavy vessels > > - Construction > > - Problems with use > > One man shows how he built a yuloh and is moving his shanty dock with it. > > Another is using a yuloh as propulsion on a 5 ton 32 foot long > Herreshoff sloop > > Look for the > "bbs.trailersailors.com/forums/potter/index.cgl/noframes/read/75464" > where George Salley has photos of a yuloh he built and it's installation. > > The advantage of the yuloh over oars is that with the oars only half of > the stroke is expending useful energy to move the boat; the return > stroke is work but doesn't move the boat. With the yuloh, on the other > hand, each stroke is useful work to move the boat forward - there is no > waste motion. > > Have fun thinking about your new yuloh project. > > Connie _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
