My nine year old, Annie, just returned from her first two day outing paddling her own solo boat -- a Perception Umiak. She was enthralled and off and flying literally within minutes. The boat was ideal for her, an affordable "real" kayak, not a tubby plastic toy, a boat she could both track and turn and make go surprisingly fast when the interest struck. The Bending Branches 180 cm., one piece, indexed, unfeathered paddle was just the ticket (as well as being modest priced and only 1 lb. 9 oz.). So all is well except for the drip ring issue -- there are none on her one piece paddle. Have any others solved this problem in some reasonable, low tech fashion? All advice appreciated. Thanks, Rich Mitchell mitchelr_at_ucs.orst.edu *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 5/14/2001 4:48:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mitchelr_at_ucs.orst.edu writes: > Have any others solved [the issue of drip rings on a one piece] in some > reasonable, low tech fashion? All advice appreciated. The Greenlanders did, Rich. A piece of light line or cord tied tightly around the shaft inboard of the paddle blades with the ends left as tassels tends to wick off most of the drips. She can get fancy with colors and second or third cords and extra tassels if she wants --- definitely a solution, and probably low tech enough. A purist might go for animal sinew as the cord, but 'most anything will work. Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I bought a couple of the plastic or rubber drip rings that have a lip or ridge where the ring meets the paddle (see my attempt at ASCII drawing below). I cut the drip ring so that it could be opened and fitted around the paddle shaft. I then looped a thin wire or plastic tie around the lip to hold the split ring together on the shaft. In the diagram, the drip ring is open the the left. The ** are supposed to represent the wire wrapped around the shaft. The short vertical lines at the narrowest part are supposed to represent the lip or ridge, although of course they wouldn't be long enough to dig into the shaft as my drawing shows. I am not as good at ASCII drawing as your list mom is! I hope that this helps. John ---- | | | --**-| ** ** <-- shaft through here --> ** --**-| | | ---| "Richard G. Mitchell, Jr." wrote: So all is well except for > the > drip ring issue -- there are none on her one piece paddle. Have > any others solved this problem in some reasonable, low tech > fashion? All advice appreciated. > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 5/14/01 4:50:29 AM, mitchelr_at_ucs.orst.edu writes: << drip ring issue -- there are none on her one piece paddle. Have any others solved this problem in some reasonable, low tech fashion? All advice appreciated. >> Some of the drip rings you buy commercially with come with instructions to cut the ring and refasten it with enclosed plastic wire straps. If you use your own you want the UV resistant black ones because it is a pain when they break and you loose the drip ring. String works on Greenland paddles, don't know how well it would do on the euro-blade style paddles. Joan *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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