Folks, has anybody seen, built or paddled a wooden bent shaft paddle? I could not quite enjoy my last paddle days at Cornwall, UK due to tendonitis (my left mouse arm showed RSI symptoms before). After some paddling days, the tendonitis got even worse when I was hiking the South West Coastal Path. :-( Anyway, now I can somewhat type again and I am looking for ways to avoid tendonitis in the future. Has anybody seen or paddled a wooden bent shaft kayak paddle? I quite like the fiberglass bent shaft paddles I have tried so far (Lendal and Lettmann) but I am really sold on wood as a paddle material. So my ideal paddle would be a wooden paddle with a bent shaft where I might change the shaft length by a couple of cm's (which is possible with fiberglass paddles and i.e. a special Lendal ferrule). I can always use my Aleut and Greenland paddles (did not bring them to Cornwall but a large-bladed Nimbus Charlotte) but a bent shaft would be nice as well. Cheers and thanks, Marian -- Marian Gunkel, Berlin, Germany http://www.mariangunkel.de *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Jun 17 2002 - 03:10:31 PDT
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