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Re: Paddle: Has anyone had experience with these g
By:Mike Bielski
Date: 1/30/2017, 2:29 pm

Hi Brian!

It's true, many people on the Qajaq USA form build paddles with a strictly lenticular cross section all the way down. To be sure, they use them and they like them.

I got interested in historic paddles, and I looked at a lot of surveys and went to museums to see actual historic paddles, and while there are always exceptions, they generally don't have shapes like that. I wanted to see how they paddled, so I started making paddles with the shapes I had seen and even making some replicas, and I feel strongly that they are more efficient than a uniform lenticular shape.

Of course we all get used to what we like, and like what we get used to, so I guess that's why there are different paddles, right?

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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/22/2017, 3:31 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/22/2017, 5:19 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 1/22/2017, 7:36 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/23/2017, 12:07 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 1/27/2017, 8:01 am
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Mike Bielski -- 1/30/2017, 2:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/23/2017, 12:44 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/23/2017, 12:48 am