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Jesse's Buffalo Boat

Posted by Sandy 
Jesse's Buffalo Boat
October 31, 2019 12:31PM
I got this photo in my email this morning from a guy named Jesse:



...with the following message:
Just did our first float with the buffalo boat we built this spring. She preformed great on a 8 mile float. We really love the design. Thanks for designing and making these plans!

Thank you Jesse. I wish more would send me photos of what they built.
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 01, 2019 02:48PM
Jesse, Nice boat. What is the length of your oars as they look substantial. Oars will be one of my next investments and I'm curious for feedback.
Don
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 04, 2019 12:16AM
Very nice, Jesse. I just did my 1st extended float recently too!
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 04, 2019 12:39PM
Jesse told me those are 8-1/2' foot oars. He also said he was going to make some from scratch at some point. 9' footers are too big for the BBoat. You can use them. I have a thousand times. But 8.5 is more like it. I've never rowed anything with 8' foot oars ever, fwiw. Including my Dayak, which probably would row well with 8' foot oars. But 8.5 is as small as I own.
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 04, 2019 12:41PM
Looks about the right length to me but I'm an amateur. What do you and Jesse think?
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 04, 2019 06:34PM
I think Jesse's not a forum guy. I like 8.5 for the BBoat. I haven't tried shorter but I haven't been tempted to either. Not at what oars cost these days.
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 04, 2019 08:29PM
So it seems that 8.5 and 9 will work with all three of your boats?
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 04, 2019 09:10PM
Yes indeed. But for just a 6" inch difference it makes a surprising difference.
I like 8.5 in Dayak (wish I could try just 8' footers) Buffalo Boat and Beavertail.

I prefer 9' footers for the 15' foot HD

If I ever get my 17' foot decked boat done I'll try it with 10' footers. I have some Smoker Lights ten feet long, that I bought 10 years ago and never used. Well. Haven't used much.
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 04, 2019 10:45PM
I'v been going to some local lakes recently and it is surprising how poorly my 6 footers due in open water, lol. Takes a bit of doin to get somewhere.
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 17, 2019 07:33PM
The power of a lever! I didn't always enjoy Physics classes in college. The more I experienced life the more I appreciated how much a part of life physics really is. Navigating a river teaches much about Mr. Newton's laws of physics.

Rick N
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 18, 2019 01:05PM
I agree.
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 18, 2019 01:24PM
The Secret of the Universe fwiw:

Newton's Third Law of Thermodynamics, as it relates to the "conservation of energy," tells us you cannot get something from nothing.

So if there ever was a time when there was nothing, then there would still be nothing. And yet nothing there is not. Therefore there must always have been something.

In other words there was no beginning. Time is infinite in both directions. Ok. I'm ready for my no bell prize. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all (audience applauds).


Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 18, 2019 01:35PM
So there were no fish and so there are still no fish..........lol
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 18, 2019 02:32PM
"He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman." "The trout do not rise in the cemetery, so you better do your fishing while you are still able."
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 18, 2019 06:11PM
Right on!

Rick N
Re: Jesse's Buffalo Boat
November 19, 2019 12:03AM
Not quite what I learned in Sunday School but he chooses us through his grace. I guess any style flies may be called as well.
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