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The Chinese yuloh [8] (Chinese: 摇 橹; pinyin: yáolǔ; Jyutping: jiu 4 lou 5) is a large, heavy sculling oar with a socket on the underside of its shaft which fits over a stern-mounted pin, creating a pivot which allows the oar to swivel and rock from side to side. The weight of the oar, often supplemented by a rope lashing, holds the oar in ...
OAR (46A: Rowing tool like a yuloh) A yuloh is a Chinese sculling OAR. It is fixed on a fulcrum, and a rope runs from the underside of the OAR handle to the deck of the boat.
A stern sculling oar is also present (known as a yuloh, 摇橹). Tracing of a ship on a mirror in the Shaanxi museum (>9th or >12th century CE) Iconographic remains show that Chinese ships before the 12th century used square sails.
Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the stern. A long, narrow boat with sliding seats, rigged with two oars per rower may be referred to as a scull , its oars may be referred to as sculls and a person rowing it referred to as sculler .
Sampans may be propelled by poles, oars (particularly a single, long stern sculling oar called a yuloh (simplified Chinese 摇橹/ traditional Chinese 搖櫓) [4]) or may be fitted with outboard motors. Sampans are still in use by rural residents of Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.
The advantage of the yuloh is that the human input used on each foreward and backward stroke of the yuloh provides a 100% input vs. rowing, where only half of the stroke provides useful propulsion. The return stroke is work - lifting the oar out of the water and bringing it back to the starting point for the next power stroke - but provides no ...
The mast, stem, thwarts and oars are made of Douglas fir. [1] The mast was made from an 80 foot tall Douglas fir tree from Napa County. [11] The oars include a traditional Chinese sculling oar called a yuloh, used from the stern, and a pair of oars that can be used from the bow. These oars allow the crews of shrimp fishing junks to maneuver ...
Another system (also called sculling) involves using a single oar extending from the stern of the boat which is moved side to side underwater somewhat like a fish tail, such as the Chinese yuloh, by which quite large boats can be moved. [14] Sampans are rowed by foot in Ninh Bình Province of northern Vietnam. [15]