Re: [Paddlewise] GP length; WAS Favorite Greenland-style paddles

From: Paul Peeling <ppeeling_at_bcpl.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:55:49 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, James W. Durkin wrote:

> Were I to take the "What is the distance between the floor and ..."
> heuristic above, I would be looking at 100" (or longer) paddles.  At
> roughly 6'4" and with fairly (OK, quite) long arms, I can reach up
> over the top of an 8-foot ceiling very easily.

<snip>

> Skis ain't paddles, but it makes we wonder.  Why not a wingspan-based
> heuristic?

There is one. Several sources I consulted before building GPs for myself
and a few others also suggest the sum of the distance of your wingspan
fingertips-to-fingertips and the distance of your cubit - the distance
from your elbow to your fingertips.

I built one for my girlfriend using this method. She knew of the
floor-to-curled fingers method and when she tested it on the finished
paddle, there was a match. My height is six feet, but based on the
difficulty I have buying pants sometimes, I must have a relatively short
inseam measurement. When I do the wingspan/cubit measurement I get a
figure that is about 2 inches longer than the other method.
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