Related Clues:

• Like a rowboat that's adrift
• Up the creek without a paddle?
• Loses out crossing a river without rower?
• Game loser, as unable to catch a crab
• SOS: earl up the creek without a paddle
• Without the means to row
• Like a motorboat
• Unable to row, as loser at sea
• Old French town's ill-equipped for 35
• Sailor outside French city without the means to row
• Old French town's reliant on Genoa, say?
• Earl's so distressed when unable to row
• Motorized, say
• Like an ill-equipped rowboat
• Without paddling implements