According to Wolfgang Brink`s article in Sea Kayaker magazine of Dec 2006, this paddle helped the original paddlers achieve speeds of 5 to 10 miles a hour while paddling for an entire day.
My interest came from reading Gnarlydog`s accounts of his use of this paddle and so I decided to try and make one
I began by making a template of half the paddle and then drew the outline on my Cedar blank
And then to begin carving out the paddle shape with the ridge in the middle.
Soon to be finished, its a nice way to spend the time between paddling sessions.
3 comments:
I envy the skills you and Gnarly and my friend have. I can get a catheter into any coronary artery with a simple twist; but give me a board to make a Greenland stick, and I will give you shavings, sawdust and an unusable chunk of wood.
Not everybody can get that catheter in, its an acquired skill, like the heading, different strokes.....
Nice work! havent tried one but think it's on the books!
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