Dear friends: I wanted to share with you my experience in sawing my Lendal paddle blade. (Lendal paddles are the only high-end paddles available here in Israel.) I had purchased a Lendal Nordkapp (carbon-nylon 12), a fairly wide blade, which is the most popular blade here in Israel. But I was a slow paddler, and I also developed pain in my forearms on long paddles. After paddling with a Lendal Archipelago, a narrower blade, the pain was less and my speed picked up (but I'm still slower than a lot of my buddies). When Nigel Dennis was here he mentioned that it was possible to saw the blade and make it narrower. I thought this was the solution for me (not wanting at the time to buy a new paddle). Now, I'm not the tinkering type and was scared to death of doing this myself. But my friend Eran, a carpenter and a paddler, agreed to do it. I gave him my Nordkapp and a friend's Archipelago to serve as a template, and he did an incredible job. it is an exact copy of the Archipelago, and paddles beautifully. I'm not sure this can be done with all materials (probably not fiberglass). BTW, Nigel will be coming to Israel next month for some paddling workshops, and he is bringing a kayak surfing instructor as well. Cool! Josh (Still paddling here, although the temperature is dropping). ============================================================================== Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, Research Fellow Tel: [972] 3-640-6448 Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and Fax: [972] 3-641-5802 African Studies Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978 Israel E-mail:teitelba_at_post.tau.ac.il www.dayan.org ============================================================================== *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Nov 18 2001 - 00:27:38 PST
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