Subject: RE: baidarka native paddles
From: Peter A. Chopelas (pac@premier1.net)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 01:24:38 EST
Jeff makes a good point, if you wanted it easy why not just mount a motor
on your yak and be done with the paddles.
Or better yet, if it is human power you want, I once saw a clever
contraption on Green Lake in Seattle, it was a sleek all wood kayak type
hull with the pilot on his back with foot petals and a crank driving a
shaft and propeller. Looked fun and fast (and efficient)!
Peter
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Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 1:02 AM
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Subject: Re: baidarka native paddles
> I attended a clinic taught by Derrick Hutchinson the British kayaking
> guru and author that was hosted by the San Francisco Bay Area Sea
Kayakers
> (BASK). It was basically a stroke and bracing clinic with some rescue
stuff
> also.
> I use a Aluetian style paddle with a ridge down the non-power face of
> the blade, the power side is smooth and slightly rounded, this is similar
to
> the paddle depicted in the survey of the Aluet kayak MAE 593-76 on page
16
> of Zimmerly's Qajaq. My friend uses a Greenland style paddle that is
> symetrical with smooth faces on both sides of the blade.
> When Mr. Hutchinson saw our native style paddles He reacted with
> scepticism and scorn. He said that kayakers go through a stage of making
> and useing these paddles but that we would grow out of it . He felt that
> these paddle provided to much slip through the water. He coudn't
understand
> why I didn't use the ridged side of my paddle as the power face because
the
> ridge would catch the water and be more efficent.
Paul,
Ya' know what they say about opinions, don't you?......I won't repeat it
here,
but I do have to have to say that you have to do what feels right for you.
My
opinion is this: There is absolutely no WRONG way to paddle, just as there
is
no way to paddle perfectly. Efficiency is good. Enjoyment is far, far
better.
Purists have every right to try and be pure, but let's face it, the very
name of
this mailing list/discussion group "baidarka" is ridiculously unpure,
impure,
not pure, etc. There is no place for elitism in the world of "traditional
kayaking".
Jeff Hancock
Aleutian Adventure Sports
http://www.aleutianadventure.com
1-888-581-4489
Fax: 907-581-6458
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