On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matt Broze wrote: <snipola> > graphite shaft Epic paddle in the surf (the most likely paddling location > where a paddle might break--especially unfeathered ones). Greg replaced the <snipola> > Our experience has been that surfing (invariably it happens while capsized > and disoriented--and to an unfeathered paddle) or forcing (or slamming) the <snipola snipola> Matt, You said it twice... unfeathered paddles are more likely to break in the surf than feathered paddles. Would you mind explaining the reasoning behind this? Is this during the surfing, sidesurfing, capsize, or swimming stage? Do you have a statistical basis for this? Or is it simply that unfeathered paddlers are braver/dumber than the average, and therefore tend to get munched more often... :) Kevin *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 21 1999 - 10:32:26 PDT
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