Makers of the finest traditional wooden oars and paddles

For more than 165 years, Shaw & Tenney has stood as America's premier maker of wooden oars, paddles, spars, and flagpoles. Our products need no introduction, each one is painstakingly shaped to deliver a lifetime of reliable performance on the water, and to earn quiet admiration as a work of art when at rest.

From our workshop on the storied banks of the Penobscot River in Maine, our craftspeople carry forward generations of time-honored tradition. In an age of shortcuts and mass production, we believe there is simply no substitute for doing things the right way, because a Shaw & Tenney product isn't just something you use. It's something you keep.