Oars?
I suggest taking a “Safe Boating Course” from the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Their aim is to NOT have to be on a search and rescue mission.
I was on Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota and was in a small 16ft fishing boat. We were in a large group of other boats as in dozens that would fish as the boats drifted. What you were suppose to do when you got to the end you would motor around the group. Well instead a guy was speeding thru the group and the bow was so high he could not see ahead. There was one person in that boat in the bow as was I in ours and I and others were waving and yelling at that boat to turn as he was headed straight towards ME!
He turned in time and continued on speeding thru the group.