David, That's the way I do it, except it never occurred to me to use a small canvas bag on the paddle tip. I use Inuit paddles and the long narrow paddle floats are too hard to come by to grind on concrete. A canvas bag?.....DOH! Kevin > I haven't mastered >keeping the paddle tip in just the water though, I still end up bracing on >the concrete. Kevin Since I paddle a SOT, I handle concrete ramps like at Santa Cruz Harbor by putting the boat in crossways to the ramp, i.e. parallel to the water line and then straddle the boat and sit into it. With a standard sprayskirt type boat, I'd use the paddle across the boat leaning on the end towards the shore, touching the concrete. If you happened to have a foam paddle float I'd put it on the end against the concrete, an inflatable might experience wear from the cement, just a canvas bag on the end of the paddle..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *************************************************************************** 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 Wed May 01 2002 - 08:19:03 PDT
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