JennyMorgan Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Not something that you see happening very often on the Broads nowadays but why not? Handy attribute and, in my experience, well worth mastering. Here's how: http://www.pbo.co.uk/video/sculling-over-the-stern-20811 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Arthur Ransome taught me how to scull about 50 years ago.... "In the stern of Swallow there was a half-circle cut out of the transom, like a bite out of the edge of a bit of bread and butter. There was just room for an oar to lie loosely in it, so that the boat could be moved along by one oar worked from side to side, and twisted this way and that so that it always pushes against the water. A lot of people do not know how to scull over the stern of a boat, but it is easy enough if you do know; and John had been taught by his father long ago in Falmouth harbour." From "Swallows & Amazons" 1931. I consequently usually fitted a third rowlock socket to the transom on most of my dinghies, but I confess the outboard motor usually won...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riyadhcrew Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Sculling was the first thing I learned in moving a boat. It was a clinker built tender in the local harbour that was moored to the bottom of a ladder and used by fishermen to get to their boats moored on bouys. A young lad was a handy way to take the tender back to shore if they were going out fishing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 There was a big boating lake at Stranraer with clinker built boats, and that is where I learned to scull. We hired a rowing boat for many years on the Broads, till the old bones said no more! Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polly Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Yes, though I favour perching on the bow and sculling from there, it's a nice way to mess about in boats. Pulling rather than pushing is less effort for me and I can ignore any 'stern waggling'.....would that be 'twerking'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayandCarole Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Crumbs must have been about 14 when I last did it, is it like cycling once you have done it you never forget? ah well no dinghy anyway Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennyMorgan Posted November 18, 2015 Author Share Posted November 18, 2015 Polly, I can just picture you 'stern waggling'! You might be able to ignore it but surely you know what blokes are like!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderwall Posted November 18, 2015 Share Posted November 18, 2015 Some of they Norfolk ales got me out my skull 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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