>"(I let go the Euro stick and grab the Greenlander >from the front deck to roll up " >This means you find the Greenlander much easier to use and roll >up with? I am becoming much more interested in having a storm >paddle on the front deck as the spare. Regards, Peter T. In my current position and stage of learning to roll the Greenlander has the advantage that it is an unfeathered paddle and I hold it for rolling one hand on the shaft, the other somewhere on the blade -if not in full extended position. So I know by feeling the blade in my hand how the other blade is orientated. In addition the shape of the blade seems to promote that the paddle finds the best blade angle itself during the sweep. My problem with the Euro paddle was that I couldn't find the correct paddle setup underwater. If I hit it right I rolled up, if not I had to bail out or reach for the arctic solution. I think on my session yesterday evening on the lake I got that figured out and found my way to get the Euro paddle into the proper setup position. But I also worked on loosing my paddle and get up with the spare one. Yesterday I wasn't able to do a half/broken paddle roll. Still missing a the final kick to get over the edge, but I keep working on it. (I like this kind of playing and messing around. Did I mentioned the paddle float roll up? Only the paddle float, no paddle). The best thing of carrying a Greenland stick as spare on the front deck is that you have a ready to use paddle in an easy accessible position. In case shit happens, reads you break or loose your regular paddle, you don't loose valuable time and focus by trying to find both parts of your spare paddle, and to get them assembled. One grip, and you can keep on paddling, bracing etc. to stay with your head above your a...... Cheers Ulli P.S. I carry a full size Greenlander as spare. I am in the middle of carving (beltsanding) a storm paddle, but the weather is not for wood working right now. Dr. Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H4H7, Nova Scotia Canada Phone I : 902-494-2673 Fax: 902-494-1685 Phone II :902-488-6796 http://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jul 14 2000 - 11:11:32 PDT
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