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The green sleeves on my sculling oars showed excessive wear after a few years. This is fine, I have rowed more than five thousand kilometers with them.

I have recently bought replacement sleeves, I have received my order, installed them with no problem.

To my surprise, after just one practice, a 15 km row at low-medium pressure I already saw signs of wear on the new collars, exactly at the place where the old pair had major wear.
Look at the picture, this is minor wear , but it is after one single practice.

[img]https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/w ... t_RBMVO8BB [/img]

I wonder if others have noticed this?

How frequently do you replace your sleeves?
Any comment or suggestion would be welcome.
Thanks

tamas

The image does not show, but you can see it at this link:

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/w ... t_RBMVO8BB

It may be a rigging problem. Try maxrigging.com! Unusual wear is most likely linked to that. You may be out of luck though if you are renting a boat because most times they will not specially rig one for you.

Just a thought.

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your input.
I also contatcted C2, and they had an interesting idea: my oarlock.
It turned out, that my oarlock was probably too worn, and even thought it looked OK, it had a sharp edge. Since C2 kindly provided me with a comlimentery replacemet (thank you guys!), the problem stopped to develop any further.

tamas