I need to pick brains, please.
Does anyone know anything about rowing boats? Specifically, what would be a normal speed for rowing one? I've googled all kinds of combinations of words but most sites only deal with racing skiffs and sculls and the like, that's if they're not simply talking exercise machines! I found one helpful place which set out hull speeds, when a boat starts to climb its own bow-wave (which I assume is not a Good Thing), but I've no idea how far above optimum/normal those speeds are.
What I'm looking at it a kind of passenger row-boat, probably not as long as an Elizabethan wherry, and not as narrow as a Venetian gondola. Probably rowed English-fashion (ie sitting and facing backwards) if that makes a difference. One very experienced, strong-armed man rowing, two passengers, calm conditions, ignoring the tide (haven't made up my mind what state the tide is in, yet, nor how strong it would be), rowing about three/three and a half miles. The rower's in no particular hurry, but not idling either -- the rowing equivalent of a walk with intent, rather than a stroll or a route march. How long would it take?
If anyone can help, I'd be grateful. Otherwise it's re-reading The Riddle of the Sands yet again. (Or getting the other half into a boat...)
Does anyone know anything about rowing boats? Specifically, what would be a normal speed for rowing one? I've googled all kinds of combinations of words but most sites only deal with racing skiffs and sculls and the like, that's if they're not simply talking exercise machines! I found one helpful place which set out hull speeds, when a boat starts to climb its own bow-wave (which I assume is not a Good Thing), but I've no idea how far above optimum/normal those speeds are.
What I'm looking at it a kind of passenger row-boat, probably not as long as an Elizabethan wherry, and not as narrow as a Venetian gondola. Probably rowed English-fashion (ie sitting and facing backwards) if that makes a difference. One very experienced, strong-armed man rowing, two passengers, calm conditions, ignoring the tide (haven't made up my mind what state the tide is in, yet, nor how strong it would be), rowing about three/three and a half miles. The rower's in no particular hurry, but not idling either -- the rowing equivalent of a walk with intent, rather than a stroll or a route march. How long would it take?
If anyone can help, I'd be grateful. Otherwise it's re-reading The Riddle of the Sands yet again. (Or getting the other half into a boat...)