Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 37 | This slanting View more quotes about makes">makes it possible to have each of the three oars in an oar group parallel to the others. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 34 | The oars are set in groups of three, and three men sit a single bench. |
| 14 | 35 | These benches are not perpendicular to the bulwarks but slant obliquely back toward the stern castle. |
| 14 | 36 | Accordingly their inboard ends are farther aft than their outboard ends. |
| 14 | 37 | This slanting makes it possible to have each of the three oars in an oar group parallel to the others. |
| 14 | 38 | The three oars are sometimes of the same length, but often they are not. |
| 14 | 39 | The Dorna used oars of varying lengths; her oars, like those of many tarn ships, varied by about one and one-half foot Gorean, oar to oar; the most inboard oar being the longest; the outboard oar being the shortest. |
| 14 | 40 | The oars themselves usually weigh about one stone a foot, or roughly four pounds a foot. |
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The oars are set in groups of three, and three men sit a single bench.
These benches are not perpendicular to the bulwarks but slant obliquely back toward the stern castle.
Accordingly their inboard ends are farther aft than their outboard ends.
This slanting makes it possible to have each of the three oars in an oar group parallel to the others.
The three oars are sometimes of the same length, but often they are not.
The Dorna used oars of varying lengths; her oars, like those of many tarn ships, varied by about one and one-half foot Gorean, oar to oar; the most inboard oar being the longest; the outboard oar being the shortest.
The oars themselves usually weigh about one stone a foot, or roughly four pounds a foot.
- (Raiders of Gor)