Frank wrote, "Two weeks ago I finally decided to build a storm paddle...after all the discussion of late. I used pine on this first paddle and make it a full 3 !/2 inches wide versus 3 3/16 for my regular paddles.....after a couple of paddles it feels very "BIG" width wise. Question....has anyone ever tried a narrower width(3 1/16) storm paddle?" Just went out to measure my regular storm paddle --- three and five sixteenths inches wide. My favorite Greenland stick is three and three eighths inches wide. Frankly, I'd never measured them before --- just made them with the same anthropometrics the Greenlanders use on the paddle width and the loom circumference. It's more in the sizes indicated by your body than in comparison to someone else's paddle, I think. My point about not having a lot of paddle out there in a brace was more about the length of the paddle --- the reach you can get in a brace --- than in the surface area. I didn't make that point well. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Jul 24 2000 - 21:42:29 PDT
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