Crooked Creek Synthetic Oar

I've had and used these oars for few weeks. They seem to be of good quality, although water did leak into the shaft on one of the oars as I left them dangle in the water for an hour while fishing. The shaft diameter is slightly smaller than my old wooden oars. To reuse my old clamp-on oarlock brackets I had to wrap the new shaft with something. I chose to use a short piece of pvc pipe (1.5 inch I think) which I cut lengthwise so that it would draw up tight. That also serves to protect the shaft from the clamps.