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

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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