oar

airo An implement used to propel a boat or a ship in the water, having a flat blade at one end, being row rowed from the other end and being normally fastened to the vessel.
An oarsman; a rower.

He is a good oar.

Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.