Barefoot Ben
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Finesse.
Sabiki rig
Sculling.
Don’t know the exact definition, but I’ll give it a shot.
The art of using an oar attached to the boat, usually the rear, to navigate waters.
My grandpa used to skull us into the natural lakes off of the yellow river(FL) to catch warmouth/goggle eyes.
Some of my fondest memories on the water.
Got this shot of an old man in the last couple of miles stretch of the Hooch. He was after a mess of bream. His paddle never left the water.
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LORAN,,,, LONG RANGE AID TO NAVIGATION was the predecessor to GPS... The first version was called LORAN A then an improved version came out called LORAN C.. I had both (I'm 77 years old) These things in the beginning were about the size of a huge suitcase or trunk... The size finally worked it self to about the size of a shoe box.... LORAN utilized two or more land based radio sigmal transmitters to determine a location by measuring thier intersecting signals...
Got this shot of an old man in the last couple of miles stretch of the Hooch. He was after a mess of bream. His paddle never left the water.
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They tried to teach me in Scouts. Never could get the hang of it.technically sculling is propelling a boat through the water with 2 oars attached to the boat. It can be one done by one person or multiple people. This is what most normal folks would call rowing a dang boat LOL. Or paddling...although I guess paddling would be using one oar on both sides of a boat to propel it forward.
Sculling used properly (not technically) is the art of propelling a boat in any direction desired with one oar and never lifting that oar from the water....it was the predecessor to a trolling motor as it allows a fisherman or a hunter to approach a likely spot on the water with almost no noise.....to the point that sculling skiffs with mounted guns could be sculled into a raft of sleeping and loafing ducks and fired and the ducks would never know a boat was approaching. Once perfected sculling is far more efficient than rowing and is almost dead silent....