Re: [Paddlewise] paddle "swirls"greenland one more time

It sounds as though a pole may have been more efficient : )Fred

dldecker_at_mediaone.net wrote:

>  Not so quick. I did a little scientific experiment this weekend while
> paddling down the St. Marys river. It was low do to not much rain from the
> rain Gods no matter who we have sacrificed to try to appeased them.
> Any how back to my observations. My paddle stroke with my greenland paddle
> is about 2 ft. While paddling many miles of 8-10 inch water over white sand
> I watched my stroke. Yes the boat did move forward but my paddle slide back
> 4-6 inches each stroke . Now my mind isn't all that scientific after
> spending 12 years in the 5th grade I finally did graduate. About a forth of
> my stroke was slippage, I watch the big blade paddlers but could not make
> any sense of it their paddles keep hitting the sand. My stroke was normal
> even though I was in shallow water. Now what do all of you learned minds
> make of this? anything to it or did I just pend a lot of time watching my
> paddle instead of the logs and trees that I ran into along the way in this
> experiment?

> At 07:45 AM 7/25/98 -0700, James Lofton wrote:
> >Now that the greenland paddle heat has cooled (I hope) some, maybe I can
> >get some of the scientific minds to answer a small question.
>
>



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