Re: Oar leathers, button location and attachment
One of the slickest button arrangements I have ever seen was something Dick Everett showed me and I set up on some oars which unfortunately escaped to someone else. Figure out where you most generally have the oars however you want. Then put a turks head at that point. Then leather over the turks head leaving a few inches above it to give you position flexibility. I didn't do the turks head per instructions out thick stuff, maybe enough to give me a 1/4" bump. I had to play with the leather a little wetting it and allowing a little more to get over the turks head. It didn't give you the big rest your oars against it bump of a racing oar or a big turks head but it gave you enough to register the oar in the same place and give you the flexibility to change, which is really handy if you are using the same oars at two positions which sometimes happens in a dinghy.
Ben Fuller
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