Hi All, I appreciate Matt's posts about history lessons and paddles. I will try to respond with some answers. I understand ahead of time that no minds will be changed by this. We had the same discussions back in the '80s. But that is ok-I like my old paddles, and my wife likes her much shorter paddles. We all paddle together anyway. I still enjoy the discussions as well. Where were storm paddles used (region)? I assume that the paddlers/hunters using them were rollers! I believe this is a key factor in who used what paddles. I once saw a beautiful storm paddle in a museum collection They could not tell me its origin. It had a somewhat hour-glass blade shape and was edged almost the entire length of the blade with a strip of bone pegged to the blade edge. The length of the shaft between the inner ends of the blades was about the width of two thumbs. The four fingers of the "in" hand was therefore necessarily up on the inner edge of the ~3" wide blade. Chuck Sutherland *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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