The bottoms consist of wooden sills with a row of beveled bricks below them inoarlockorientation.
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An alternative to the sliding seat, called a "sliding rigger", uses a stationary seat and the rower moves the oarlocks with his feet.
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The first racing shells, while narrower than working rowboats, were limited by the width necessary to mount the oarlocks on the boat's sides (gunwales).
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Theoarlockis attached to the far end of the rigger away from the boat.
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It is outfitted with long oars, outriggers to hold the oarlocks away from the boat, and sliding seats.
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Another system uses "inboard mounted oarlocks" to achieve forward motion of the boat with a pulling motion on the oars.
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Longships had hooks for oars to fit into, but smaller oars were also used, with crooks or bends to be used as oarlocks.
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The hulls can be kept narrower by attaching riggers to the gunwales, so that the oarlocks can be placed farther out to carry longer oars.
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To prevent this from impacting the balance of the boat, oneoarlock(conventionally the port one) is rigged higher than the other prior to rowing.
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A single sculling oar with anoarlockon the rear transom can be a compact emergency oar.
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Equipped with oarlocks for rowing.
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The actual fitting that holds the oar may be as simple as one or two pegs (or thole pins) or a metaloarlock(also called rowlock - rollock).
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The rigger allows the racing shell to be narrow thereby decreasing drag, while at the same time placing theoarlockat a point that optimizes leverage of the oar.
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