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Specialty & Large Oars
We make oars for virtually any boat. From museum reproductions to gondola oars for the Venetian Casino. Below are some of our standard offerings. Please call us to discuss your needs.
- Ultralight Oars for Lifeboats
- Long Oars up to 26’ or more!
- Beetle Whaleboat Oars
- 12’ Monomoy Lifeboat Oars
- Venetian Gondola Oars
- Cornish Pilot Gig Oars
- St Lawrence Skiff Oars
- Square Loom Oars
- Reverse Taper Oars
- Driftboat Oars
- Rafting Oars
Starting at - $398.00
This product cannot be shipped through our Online Store.
Please call 800-240-4867 to place your order.
Please call 800-240-4867 to place your order.
Our History
While technically founded in 1858, this hand painted sign dug up from the archives shows that the company was actually doing business two years before that. Either way, we're still the second oldest manufacturer of marine products in the United States today.
From our simple workshop on the banks of the Penobscot River, we still employ time-honored manufacturing traditions. Here, a long time Shaw & Tenney craftsman sculpts an oar on a drum sander that’s more than 100 years old.
Our oars and paddles are all made to order right here, in our Orono, Maine workshop. Meticulously hand sewing oar leathers takes years (and years) of practice.
We’ve been dipping our paddles the same way for over 100 years. Of course there are probably easier ways to do it, but we’re convinced there’s no better.
