Mark wrote, "so -- thanks to all you have responded to my question about wooden paddles. It seems the answers were pretty much what I had thought -- they're pretty, they feel good, and they perhaps flex a little more than other kinds of paddles. I think I'll keep mine." Came in at the end of this thread, I guess, but I'm surprised that there were no posts from other "Greenland" style paddlers. The list of likes would include all the above noted advantages, and would add the ease of sculling and rolling to the equation, the total appropriateness --- if that's a word --- of the use the long, narrow indigenous paddle with many of our more "Greenland" style composite and plastic kayaks and many wood kit boats, the satisfaction of carving your own anthropometrically designed paddle where you can seriously achieve some kharma with the paddle --- oh, and the fact the you can carve one with simple hand tools for $5 to $10 does seem to enhance the kharma somewhat. Using an indigenous paddle is not the same as using a wooden "europaddle". Don't assume that the same techniques apply. But there's a wealth of information out there on Greenland paddles and paddling that is easily available, and, for some paddlers and some boats, it's a natural! Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jun 04 2000 - 06:30:05 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:26 PDT