Erps-
They do row fairly well. My late wife used to row the 12' 6" portabote she bought me for fishing around some of the lakes down in Virginia..
Took her a while to not row in giant circles though... I often had three people in the boat and would row it to different fishing spots on Burke Lake, even in fairly high winds, it was pretty easy to do. With the 3.5 hp Tohatsu... it moves quite nicely.
One caveat—the plastic transom and seats are really a weak point. I know most people have replaced theirs with ones made out of marine ply and fiberglassed over them. Fortunately, mine came with a wooden transom, not the plastic one they're using nowadays. The plastic used for the benches and the transom seems to get fairly brittle after prolonged UV exposure, which doesn't bother the hull. This summer, I'll be fiberglassing the transom plate on my boat, as well as building new benches to match. They may have fixed this problem, but if they have, I haven't heard about it.
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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