Customer Reviews

Scotty Oar Collars (1 Pair Per Pack)

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As noted in a previous review, these needed to be cut down to fit oars under 1 5/8 inch. My oars are 1 1/2 inches. With a fine blade on a band saw, cutting was trivial. It would have been slightly more challenging with a hand saw. A fine tooth blade (like a Japanese pull saw) would probably do it well.

Large screw hose clamps held the collars in place for trial. The worked well in the Scotty Oarlocks which claim a 1 3/4 opening. I still need to get oar stoppers and eventually to modify the collars and oar locks to give precise angular positioning for the stroke and feather (return) positions.

It would help if the product descriptions for oars, collars, and stops would all give the relevant dimensions.

I thought these would fit my aluminum Carlisle oars, but these are designed for wooden ones. No way to reduce the size of these (cutting them as described in manual is NOT simple). My fault for not paying more careful attention to what I was ordering. They would work fine in standard wooden oars.

Have purchased four sets of Scotty's locks and collars.
Easy to install and supremely durable.
Found no need for nails tape is enough.
My oars are 1 1/4 in diameter. Just inserted a piece of 1 1/2 i.d. plastic plumbing pipe as a filler.

Oar collars have been in real-world use for 20-30 hours on a 12ft skiff. They perform as expected and much better than the rubber roll-on collars. Rubber ones were a pain to position and after a few hours of use, the oar horns rubbed right through. That is not an issue with these.

I purchased the oar collars my mistake because they did not work for my jon boat so I purchased oar locks which were better for me. I am sure the the collars work but they did not fit on my oars so I can not make a recommendation.

This is our second set of Scotty Oar Collars and when attached they work to perfection. Small problem is the nails provided for the top attachment, they're not long enough so we substitute some galvanized that work at holding the collar on. Other detail is the trimming to fit the oars, we found a hacksaw for the thick portion and a straight razor work best to get clean cuts.

Very unhappy with this purchase-oars were made with SOFT wood not hard wood and have chipped easily and I thought I was purchasing quality oars, not something I could have gotten at a Dollar Store.