Most of us who row thousands of oars strokes a year have two things in common, worn shoulders and worn Oars Tips..
SO to keep the shoulders mobile we eat lots of Ibuprofen and buy the best paddles we can afford, often that is in the form of SAWYER DYNALITE’s. Not to many years ago,,,ah well or 20 years ago we always had wood oars ash was the best then fiberglass then composite now we have come full circle and have LAMINATED WOOD with COMPOSITE OARS BLADES,,,wow that’s a mouthful. Any way they have added years to the life of my shoulders so I am adding years to the life of my money makers,,, the paddles.
When your $580 oars start looking like this: sorry about the pics focus but I did not notice till I had done the work:)
- Through the fiberglass, through the plastic wearstrip and into the wood.
Its time for some repair. I am sure you can find some add on fix on the inter webs but I wanted to be sure I was adding good wear protection and MOSTLY keep the water away from the wood, which is not possible at this point with adding the slip over plastic tips.
First thing I did was add Five minute Epoxy like Bondo to the worn off sections of the tips, and then sanded smooth.
Once that is dry and hard you can sand it well enough to help the fiberglass resin seal out any water.
