Re: [Paddlewise] Re[2]: Re[2]: Modern Greenland Paddle

I will vouch for the utility of old hockey sticks for making paddles. One
of the first paddles I made used a hockey stick as the shaft. It is a nice
ash lamination.
Nick

At 10:27 AM -0500 3/28/98, John Winters wrote:
>Dan wrote;
>>>      <Most Inuit kayakers today use paddles made from cast off hockey
>>>      sticks. ....
>>>
>>> You've been hanging out with Dr. Inverbon too much lately, John.
>>> Can't be!  They'd be paddlin' in circles all the time.
>>>
>>>      Glassy-eyed Joq
>>
>>Yup, just like canoeists. Actually, all they would need to do is to fit
>>their boats with a rudder to counteract the asymmetry of the hockey
>>paddle.
>
>
>Should clear this up. They use cast off hockey sticks i.e. sticks that have
>been broken. It is the shaft they use and install new blades on them. I
>know, you
>think I am pulling your leg but all this is really true. I have a Fiberglas
>paddle I made from a hockey stick blank supplied by one of the big
>manufacturers and it isn't half bad.
>
>No kidding, honest. seriously, no joke, it really works.
>
>
>Seriously folks.
>
>Cheers,
>John Winters
>Redwing Designs
>Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
>http://home.ican.net/~735769/
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Nick Schade
Guillemot Kayaks
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