Kevin Stevens wrote: > > Basically, no, there is no such thing as a paddle which is too light. However, > there is such a thing as a paddle which is too weak, and there are many such > things as paddles which are too expensive. ;) The saying used to be, "Light, strong, cheap: pick any two." There is an exception to this now, Whetstone Paddles (http://www.kayakstore.com), which sells only mailorder, so you save the retail markup prices are about $100 less than most other manufacturers. They only do carbon fiber/S-glass lay-ups, designed by a composite materials science guy from Georgia Tech. I just received my new Whetstone WW paddle, and it's pretty. Inaugural trip this weekend. I don't have any $$ connection with the company, but its President has rescued me on the river a couple of times and is generally a nice guy. He used to be the manager of Harmony Paddles (not terribly light, fairly strong, reasonably priced). If you talk to William, say hi for me. Steve *************************************************************************** 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 Oct 20 2000 - 05:48:28 PDT
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