my favorite is my "bending branches" 14o bent shaft canoe paddle, followed closely by my _old_ bob foote wooden paddle [made by sawyer]. both are fairly light, and well balanced, and WOOD ;-) i love the feel of a wooden canoe paddle... these are followed by my kevlar bob foote paddle, stiff, no personality whatsoever!! light and fairly hard to abuse. for my sea kayaks, i don't have a lot of experience with good paddles. my favorite has to be the paddle my dad through in when i bought his sea kayak, an aquaterra whisper. decent [i think!!] wooden paddle, very light compared to many other paddles i've lifted. a bit of flex for someone my weight [86Kg], but decent in comparison to good canoe paddles. the other two kayak paddles i have are plastic & aluminum clubs, ll bean, which i believe is a mohawk, and an aquaterra passage, which is lighter and nicer then the ll bean ;-) but heavy. this is [for now, until i learn what i want] my river paddle. the whisper cracked on a know last year, and i'm not sure how to go about fixing it, suggestions?? offline or on. if i get enough, i'll post a synopsis. mark ps shaft is cracked: ------------------------------------------- ---------------\ ----------------\-------------------------- #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/cpr [Colorado Paddlers' Resource] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmskc [Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmcc [Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page] http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark [personal] -- Fortune: --- Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
My paddle is a Werner Camano, 240 cm, which I have used for all of about 45 minutes so far -- less, really, because I let my brother-in-law try it out for last part of our short paddle this past weekend. In exchange, he handed me the Aquaterra paddle (name unknown to me) that was thrown in with the Aquaterra Spectrum I had just bought used. That paddle, as soon as I can get to Go With the Flow (a paddle shop here in Atlanta, GA, USA), will be relegated to "spare" status -- the shaft is cracked in several places and it is noticeably heavier than the Werner. Ron -------------------------------- Ron Johnson |The Tao is nowhere to be found. rfred_at_mindspring.com |Yet it nourishes and completes all things. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
(Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/comments from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material and list footers when replying to posts.) Dear padling friends, now I dont know much about thie tecknical side of padles but feel that we are missing somthing. You guys are all talking about the padle standing still in the water and the boat moving and that is also what I tell my students but, the eskimo padle has a completly different form and modern padles, here the water easely moves past the padle it is this movement (slippage) thatproduces the propulsion. I do not quite understand it but it must be simmular to swimming where you maintain a space between your fingers where the water can flow trough. I maight have it all wrong but I am sure that som of you tech wizards can clearefy this best regards from Denmark Lenze Middelberg Havkajakcenter Svendborg Skaregårdsvej 9 Skovballe DK5700 Svendborg (+45) 62541920 lenze_at_naturtur.dk www.havkajakcenter.dk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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