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Forum: SeaKayaking
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 Followup to what paddle to get New
- Forum: SeaKayaking
Date: Aug 08 2008, 0:37 GMT
From: Dr_Disco
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As I indicated friends of mine told me about a local woodworker who made GP's of good quality. So I contacted him, tried out several paddles, and purchased one of them. I have paddled a lot around the lake I live on and took a week long trip to northern Ontario. My overall impression was favorable except the paddle seemed to flutter rather easily and if I tried to paddle with a forward cant I had to be careful it didn't scoot under the boat and dump me over. The only forward stroke that seemed to work was a short, out at the hips stroke with a vertical blade. On further investigation I found that the woodworker designs his paddles to match the ones that Betsie Bay Kayaks sells. A little searching on the net and I discovered that they are designed for the style of Doug Van Doren, not the forward cant style. The blades are much too flat for that. Wish I had known this in advance. Now I have a hollow core wood paddle on order from Superior. |
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