| This innovative oarlock system design incorporates a new 'tension arm' mechanism within the gate that holds your oar tight against the pin. |
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| And in 1970, Brown managed to ram the boat into a rock in a rapid called Unkar, splitting the hull from oarlock to oarlock. |
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| A wooden contraption with a sliding seat and an oarlock place at the edge of the launch. |
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| But just as the women were about to make a move to pull even, one of the oars popped out of its oarlock. |
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| In the midst of this mess, I turn to see that one of the Sequoia's oars has been wrenched out of its oarlock. |
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| These act more or less as an oarlock for his racquet handle as he shifts his grip for a forehand or a backhand. |
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| The oars are the same length, but the distance between hands and oarlock, the lever arm, is longer amidships, because the ship is wider there. |
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| Everything lines up perfectly, especially the fact that we found this very large oarlock on the main ballast pile. |
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| The plastic jacket on the shaft of the oar upon which is mounted a button, used to secure the blade to the oarlock. |
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| A bar across the oarlock to prevent the oar from popping out. |
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| A collar around the shaft of the oar that keeps the oar from slipping through the oarlock and can be adjusted up and down the oar to increase or decrease leverage. |
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| Quickly lifting the other from the oarlock and flailing with it towards its lost brother, I somehow managed to let slip that one, too. |
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| But he rowed on the starboard side, and as the stroke oarlock is generally on port, the seven man lives forever in humble frustration. |
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| But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip. |
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