At 2:48 PM -0500 8/5/98, Chuck Holst wrote: >(Five years ago I attended a talk by John Heath in which someone handed >him a paddle that did not have shoulders. Heath did not recognize it as >a Greenland paddle -- he wasn't sure what it was -- "Aleut?" he guessed. >The person who handed him the paddle still makes paddles in that style >and sells them as Greenland paddles.) There is a slight implication here that Aleut paddles are somehow not as good as Greenland paddles. Is this intentional? If so why? Do Greenland paddles have some virtue that other, (non-Greenland) Inuit or Aleut, paddles do not have? In previous discussions the "Greenland" paddle was the benchmark. Is this just laziness and we really mean all traditional paddles when we refer to Greenland style? Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks c/o Newfound Woodworks, 67 Danforth Brook Rd, Bristol, NH 03222 (603) 744-6872 Schade_at_guillemot-kayaks.com http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/ >>>>"It's not just Art, It's a Craft!"<<<< *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Aug 05 1998 - 14:15:55 PDT
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