I have a werner carbon fiber and I found I could use little or no grip on the push hand (to stretch fingers at the end of a long days paddle), and a lite grip on the pulling hand. This did cause some flutter, but putting a real tiny twist on the blade made it acceptable for one handed grip paddling. Putting a couple degrees or so of angle off of the norm created a weird feel and I thought was inefficient. I here wing paddles are a design that is optimized for putting pressure down on the water. It would seem a mistake to pull up with a paddle as that would lenghten the waterline and effective mass of the boat. You'd be expending energy which would work against you by both increasing effective mass and wetted surface area. The wing paddle would do the opposite. But I'm no expert. -- Mike McNally mmcnally3_at_prodigy.net *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Nov 30 2001 - 19:39:22 PST
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