I have posted this to Paddlewise because Matt has some ideas regarding my long paddle rational for Eastern Canadian native paddlers. If we fool around with this long enough, maybe Mr. Golden will provide us with his ideas. Chuck Sutherland ----------------------------------- From: skimmer_at_enter.net To: marinerkayaks_at_msn.com Subject: Lightning paddles Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:48:56 -0400 Hi Matt, I don't believe the paddle I broke surfing off Newport RI was your Lightning. I think it was just another of my beat up old Klepper paddles. I also had a very nice wood strip 8 ft, 90 degree offset paddle by Nimbus. It was, and still is, good for teaching rolling, but not good for touring due to 90 degree offset. Long keel lines and hard to control, heavy, beamy East arctic boats and the requirement that they not ever capsize are reason enough for me for their long paddles. Southwest Greenland boats were really much more like slalom boats-Narrow, lots of rocker, so much so that to give them some tracking ability they had to attach a fin (skeg) on the boats, either inside or outside the skin, to augment their tracking ability. Such boats, as discussed for WW boats, require shorter paddles. That in turn, requires the ability to roll. These are a package deal, I believe. How do you account for the long paddles (that included several radically different construction styles) of the Eastern Arctic? 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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