[quote=flybabyflyr2ak2018]I just finished attempting R2AK my third time and completed the Everglades challenge and got halfway through the ultimate florida challenge all without motors obviously. But I finally got my human propulsion straightened ou just last month. I had oars with oar locks on a 17’ Monohull that propelled me 2kts top speed one year and mostly just a paddle for every other attempt except my latest one. I finally broke down and bought a nice pedal drive on craigslist I just lucked out that it happened to be the best one on the market like new for about half price. Gotta love the internet for putting that together. It was a wilderness systems helix drive and I knew it was the best when I saw “black horse” with two of them on their stern this year at R2AK. Black horse won the Washington 360 last year (the replacement race for R2AK while canada borders were closed for COVID.) setup was a breeze too. I just bolted it onto. Scaffolding plank and slid it through my beefy dolphin striker and lashed the end to the bottom of my tramp and glued a wedge shaped block of wood under it so it rested flat on the tension bar. Worked great. I comfortably peddled my boat 2kts for days at a time once I got used to it and could do 3kts in a sprint. I also bought an Everglades Challenge 2021 finisher boat “dream on” a hobie 17 with a sweet sliding seat sculling setup but never got to try it. Mike, used a carbon comp tip section bolted to the cross beams using spreader bars and hounds tangs as bracing and brackets, as the platform the sliding seat was bolted on. The oars fit under the stock hobie 17 wings he said. He tried it with the mast down and said it works great. But that’s all I know. I can take pics if you’re interested and I’ll even sell it to you if you want. If anyone wants to read about my Ultimate Florida 2022 experience https://www.watertribe.com/magazine/Y2022/M06/UltimateFloridaChallenge2022.aspx and my instagram is shipwrecksurvivor if you’re interested in my R2AK2022 experience.[/quote]
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