Subject: Re: baidarka FW: Aleut Paddle
From: Douglas Ingram (redcanoe@pangea.ca)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 17:15:49 EST
Ahh, single blades, now you are entering my territory. I'll have to look up
the references that you cite before I comment. All I have is Adney and
Chapelle.
There is a lot to know regarding single blades, too much to go into here.
If anyone wishes to ask specific questions, I'd be glad to offer what I have
learned.
In general, North American Native paddles average 25"-32" long, throat to
tip. Most of my blades are about 27". Most are about 6" max width.
Douglas Ingram
Red River Canoe & Paddle
Lorette, Manitoba
> One of my next experiments is going to be with the single paddles.
Haven't
> decided which style to try, although I am most tempted by the King Island
> blades similar to those in Fig. 111. They would provide the maximum power
> when the blade is about even with my thigh, which is the highest power
> portion of the stroke. That blade is very different from the one shown in
> fig. 87-90, also from King Island. Comments?
>
> Finally, look at the blades in Figure 46 and Fig. 4. Notice how they do
the
> same thing as the King Island single blade on Fig. 111, setting the
maximum
> beam of the blade to the point in the stroke where the paddler would have
> maximum power. The Aleut blades we have been working with do not do this;
> they concentrate the power at the farthest tip of the blade. I would
think
> the blade shown in Fig. 4 would be very inefficient in surf, where you
need
> that support out on a lever arm; however, I think it would be more
efficient
> than the other Aleut blades in straight paddling. This question of the
> location of the greatest width of the blade is interesting, isn't it?
> Comments?
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