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.

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

Very nice, Jesse. I just did my 1st extended float recently too!

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.

Looks about the right length to me but I'm an amateur. What do you and Jesse think?

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.

So it seems that 8.5 and 9 will work with all three of your boats?

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.

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.

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

I agree.

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).

So there were no fish and so there are still no fish..........lol

"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."

Right on!

Rick N

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.