Hi Tom! One of the issues with rowing is freeboard. I helped sail an old planked wooden keelboat of maybe 30' once, from Dana Pt to Newport, back in the 70's probably. It was kind of like a Dragon but wasn't. It had one long oar; the lock was on the coaming, and you rowed standing up, facing forward, with the tiller between your legs. Worked fine- good excercise for an hour or so, then I think it would get old. I know people have done this on eith a 15 or a 17, but no personal experience. You might want to make a removable seat just the right distance forward of the tiller so you could steer with your knees. How you guys doing? Still frozen in? I hoped you might make it Havasu last month to thaw out a bit. Give Jane my love. jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Murphy" <seagray@embarqmail.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 8:35 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: a smaller boat Looks more and more like a Norseboat with a cuddy cabin.. Is that even doable?? ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Smith To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:25 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: a smaller boat jerry, I'd make a small boat like this specifically designed to be oar-ready. Any new boats I'm thinking about lately, especially beachable ones, don't have motors, or don't count on motors for primary propulsion. t -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 6309 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message