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Re: Strip: Greenland paddles
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 2/4/2010, 12:45 am
In Response To: Strip: Greenland paddles (victor druten)

: Wood (intended)like to make a Greenland-like paddle out of one
: piece of wood. Have seen tons of pictures. BUT..none show if one
: side of the Greenland ends are curved/concave. It looks like
: they might be FLAT on BOTH sides?? Just going to have my Night
: Heron on small lakes so I don't need anything for Heavy Water.

Agree that Brian's book is excellent, also good info here: http://www.qajaqusa.org/Equipment/paddles.html

Btw, not flat on the sides, more convex. Doesn't look like it would work, works extremely well regardless of how it looks.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Greenland paddles
victor druten -- 2/3/2010, 10:24 am
Re: Strip: Greenland paddles *PIC*
Brian Nystrom -- 2/4/2010, 7:46 am
Re: Strip: Question for Greenland paddles
paxtonm -- 2/4/2010, 1:33 pm
Re: Strip: Question for Greenland paddles
Fred -- 2/5/2010, 1:36 pm
Re: Strip: Question for Greenland paddles
Bill Hamm -- 2/5/2010, 9:14 pm
Re: Strip: Question for Greenland paddles
Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 2/6/2010, 12:56 pm
Re: Strip: Question for Greenland paddles
fadedred -- 2/6/2010, 3:07 pm
Re: Strip: Question for Greenland paddles
Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2010, 3:33 pm
Bill's right
Brian Nystrom -- 2/4/2010, 3:58 pm
Re: Bill's right
Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2010, 4:51 pm
Re: Bill's right
paxtonm -- 2/4/2010, 4:58 pm
Re: Strip: Greenland paddles
Bill Hamm -- 2/4/2010, 12:45 am
Re: Strip: Greenland paddles
Len Thunberg -- 2/3/2010, 12:20 pm
Re: Strip: Greenland paddles
Clayton Plunkett -- 2/3/2010, 12:05 pm