Joq wrote; > To add a personal comment to the Greenland paddle thread --- there was > a comment about the virtues of home-crafted Greenlands that was right > to the point. The indigenous folks who carved these things made them > to their own dimensions --- anthropometrically. All the gouges are in > the John Heath articles --- hand size influences loom, length is the > upraised hand with fingers curled, etc. And the significnace here is > that it really <does> make a difference. A big difference. Actually I have clear up the record here. Most Inuit kayakers today use paddles made from cast off hockey sticks. When asked why they use hockey sticks instead of carving a paddle from a piece of drift wood they laugh and reply that the only reason their ancestors carved paddles form driftwood was because they didn't have any old hockey sticks. A top quality carbon fiber hockey stick paddle is much prized by Inuit hunters. Personal note to Joq; Just received your package in survival gear and it should keep me busy nights digesting it. No wonder government workers have those glasy eyed looks. Cheers, John Winters Redwing Designs Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft http://home.ican.net/~735769/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Mar 27 1998 - 06:19:21 PST
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