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Re: Paddle: Carbon fiber blade: need advice
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 4/23/2011, 7:59 am
In Response To: Re: Paddle: Carbon fiber blade: need advice (Alex Ferguson)

: One wonders at the amount of effort needed when a straight wooden
: dowel and ply blades work out to be a similar weight. Simply cut
: the slot for the blade at a different angle if feathered is
: required.

: My Greenland paddles, I've always used unfeathered, are as light or
: lighter than the figures you quoted on you web site. ???

: Alex

Sometime here I want to try a birdsmouth hollow shaft GP just for fun. Have to be a summer project, I have no spring left :)

I did gain a little extra time though, the high school class I was going to teach just jumped in on their own and did the glassing theselves. I'm sure they learned more that way anyhow. And that class was an hour and a half drive each way, wasn't looking forward to the drive with the gas prices the way they are. I'd just take the bike, but it never stops raining here.

Bill H.

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Paddle: Carbon fiber blade: need advice *PIC*
Dale Benham -- 4/21/2011, 5:55 pm
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Allan -- 4/21/2011, 6:41 pm
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Joe Whitman -- 4/21/2011, 6:50 pm
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Reg Lake -- 4/21/2011, 9:09 pm
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Dale Benham -- 4/21/2011, 9:45 pm
Re: Paddle: Carbon fiber blade: need advice *PIC*
Bryan Hansel -- 4/22/2011, 7:23 pm
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Alex Ferguson -- 4/22/2011, 7:48 pm
Re: Paddle: Carbon fiber blade: need advice *PIC*
Bryan Hansel -- 4/22/2011, 11:51 pm
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Glen Smith -- 4/23/2011, 12:01 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 4/23/2011, 12:12 am
Ouch!!! *NM*
Glen Smith -- 4/23/2011, 12:49 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 4/23/2011, 6:06 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/23/2011, 7:59 am
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Mike Savage -- 4/23/2011, 4:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/24/2011, 12:36 am
Re: Paddle: Carbon fiber blade: need advice *PIC*
Bryan Hansel -- 4/23/2011, 9:35 am
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Alex Ferguson -- 4/23/2011, 6:41 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 4/23/2011, 8:57 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/23/2011, 7:53 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 4/23/2011, 9:37 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/23/2011, 12:21 pm
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matt -- 5/14/2011, 6:54 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 5/14/2011, 9:38 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 5/3/2011, 6:58 am
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Dale Benham -- 5/3/2011, 6:54 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/4/2011, 1:53 am