On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Peter Osman wrote: What have others found > with hired kayaks - are the paddles usually feathered? Perhaps Elaine could > tell us what they use in N.Uist? Perhaps, if old ladies could remember anything. I'm pretty sure they were feathered. Since you're about to call Niall, maybe you could ask him. By the way, I always wondered why the ww paddles were feathered, too, since wind is almost never a factor there. And now I'm seriously considering defeathering after reading all this. Thanks, guys; I wasn't confused enough as it was. Oh, and the photo of gorgeous Brian Wilson on the back of "Dances with Waves" shows him paddling with what seems to be an unfeathered short wide-bladed paddle. (I finally looked at the paddle instead of G.B.W.) Slainte! e Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 17:01:44 PDT
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