Help on finding instructions for wrapping oars

[Jerry Sturdivant]

I’m looking around for a forum to ask a question, this seems to be it.

 

Somewhere in Model Ship World I’d seen instructions on how to wrap rope around ship oars. Now that I need it, I can’t find it.

 

This is my current project:

 

Sloup Coquillier (1912+) - Jerry Sturdivant - Corel Scale 125

 

I have the oars painted and the rope ready, but where in this large database did I see the rope wrapping and knotting?

 

Thanks..

[mtaylor]

Jerry,

I changed the title a bit to give others a clue as to what you are looking for.  I also moved it to the proper forum.

[Roger Pellett]

Oars were typically covered with leather where they contacted the thole pins or oarlocks.  WoodenBoat Magazine recently (the last two or three issues back) included instructions for making oars and a side bar for adding the leather.

 

[wefalck]

Some people / navies like to have a rope-ring or something like this above the leathering to prevent the oar from slipping out of the thole. In other places this is frowned upon. I gather this is what Jerry was referring to ?

 

Such a ring is usually a tight-fitting single or double 'Turk's Head' (well, today rubber rings are used). There are instructions for tying Turk's Heads on the Internet or in books on knots. At a 1/25 scale it should not be too difficult to replicate.