These marinas have mooring facilities and rent pontoon boats, rowboats, motorboats, canoes, and motors. The factory also rented canoes and rowboats. Rentals are available at the lake for canoes, rowboats, kayaks and stand-up paddle boards. It is used mainly by tourists with small motorboats, canoes and rowboats. Rowboats and pedal boats can be rented. Rowboats and pedalboats can be rented at the boathouse. Longer, narrower rowboats can reach but most rowboats of can be rowed at . Sometimes on narrow, faster rowboats for protected waters outriggers are added to increase rowlock separation. In the Crimean War, minesweepers consisted of British rowboats trailing grapnels to snag the mines. Rowboats and pedalos can be hired at the Kodaikanal Boat Club. Small whales were hunted close to the shore with the small rowboats used for fishing. Visitors can rent rowboats on the lake. Visitors can rent paddleboats and small rowboats at the lake. Powell purchased four modified, round-bottomed Whitehall rowboats for the expedition. Axel altered the setting from a ship-filled harbor to fisherman's rowboats on a beach.