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

At 09:47 PM 7/26/98 -0400, Fred Brown wrote:
>It sounds as though a pole may have been more efficient : )Fred


Wow!!! I have an excuse to do another experiment! Any particular diameter ?
I have heard of some canoe guides up north some where using poles to paddle
with and they do pretty good if what I hear is right, a little slow to get
up to speed but nothing new there if you use a Greenland blade .

Dana


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>dldecker_at_mediaone.net wrote:
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>>  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?
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>> 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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