page_title: Human-powered watercraft
section_title: Oared craft
hierarchical_section_title: Human-powered watercraft / Oared craft
caption_attribution_description: Español: Barca de jábega de la provincia de Málaga
context_page_description: Human-powered watercraft are watercraft propelled by human power.
  The three main methods of collecting human power are directly from the hands or feet, through the hands with oars, paddles, or poles, or through the feet with pedals and a crank or treadle.
  While most human-powered watercraft use buoyancy to maintain their position relative to the surface of the water, a few, such as human-powered hydrofoils and human-powered submarines, use hydrofoils, either alone or in addition to buoyancy.
context_section_description: Oars are held at one end, have a blade on the other end, and pivot in between in oarlocks.
  Oared craft include:
  Racing shell
  Using oars in pairs, with one hand on each oar, is two-oar sculling. The oars may also be called sculls.
  Two-oared sculled craft include:
  Adirondack guideboat
  Banks dory, Gloucester dory, and McKenzie River dory
  Dinghy
  Sampans rowed by foot in Ninh Bình Province of northern Vietnam.
  Scull, Single scull, Double scull, Quad scull, and Octuple scull
  Skiff
  Row boat
  Using oars individually, with both hands on a single oar, is sweep or sweep-oar rowing. In this case the rowers are usually paired so that there is an oar on each side of the boat.
  Sweep-oared craft include:
  Coxless pair, Coxed pair, Coxless four, Coxed four, and Eight
  Galley, Dromon, Trainera, and Trireme
  Moving a single stern-mounted oar from side to side, while changing the angle of the blade so as to generate forward thrust on both strokes, is single-oar sculling.
  Single-oar sculled craft include:
  Gondola
  Sampan
  Sandolo
caption: Rowing a trainera
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