Dear Ralph and friends: At 11:53 11/09/02, ralph diaz wrote: >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. Wasn't James interested in a bent-shaft model? I don't think Feathercraft, Nimbus or Aquabound make such paddles, although I am sure they are good paddles. >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. Ralph is certainly right here. >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. I'm not so sure about this. This summer I flew several airlines: American, United, Lufthansa, and Alaska. I carried two, two- piece paddles in a Lendal paddle bag. Although I was a bit concerned that what I was carrying looked too much like a hunting rifle or shotgun case, and had written "Paddles" all over it to assuage suspicion, I had absolutely no problem bringing it on board. Not only was I not questioned about it, it did not even count as a piece of hand baggage. Best, Josh ============================================================================== Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, Senior 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 Wed Sep 11 2002 - 05:58:50 PDT
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