You had two questions on 4-piece paddles: 1. Recommendations. My advice is to stick with a company whose bread and butter is to offer good 4-piece paddles for its customers. And that is Feathercraft. The company doesn't make its own but contracts out. It uses Nimbus now but used Aquabound earlier. I have one made by the latter and it works well. The reason I suggest using a paddle made by someone who provides lots of them is that they have solved the leakage problem. You have a potential leakage problem at the snap button and takeapart connection at the blade ends. 4 piece ones made by the two paddle makers above leak little if any there. Those made by companies that are cutting you a 4-piece paddle as a side business may or may not leak and some do. 2. Paddle bag for a 4-piece. Put it in with your folding kayak carry bag. You can protect it in various ways there. The shaft pieces are pretty strong in themselves. The blades can be protected from chipping by wrapping them in something. Your paddle float is a handy holder for the blade or you can wrap some thin foam or bubble wrap around them. If you intention is to have a carry bag for a 4-piece paddle for travel, consider that you would not likely be allowed on a plane with what essentially is a club. ralph diaz *************************************************************************** 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 Sep 11 2002 - 02:52:27 PDT
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