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Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
By:Pedro Almeida
Date: 1/14/2008, 9:49 pm
In Response To: Other: Building a kayak paddle (Kyle Lindstrom)

Kyle,

I've built a couple of paddles with a combination of wood, carbon fiber, and foam. Some of the ingredients were from Nick Schade, Duane Strosaker, and Shawn Baker. I added a few ideas and some spices and ended up with one great paddle. It originally weighed 25 ounces and the swing weight feels very low. Here are some links:

http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Building/index.cgi/read/158478 A previous post

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84917002@N00/ A few pictures of my paddle

http://www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/paddle/birdshaft.html Bird's mouth shaft

http://www.rollordrown.com/kayak/paddle.html Lay-up for the power face, etc.

The shape of the blades is from the offsets in Nick's book.

I highly recommend:
1. An egg-shaped shaft instead of oval
2. A light weight paddle
3. An unfeathered paddle
4. Foam-cored blades (if you use composites)

Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

Pedro Almeida

Messages In This Thread

Other: Building a kayak paddle
Kyle Lindstrom -- 1/14/2008, 12:10 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
Pedro Almeida -- 1/14/2008, 9:49 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle *Pic*
Bryan Hansel -- 1/14/2008, 5:24 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
Kyle Lindstrom -- 1/15/2008, 8:54 am
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle *LINK*
Dave Houser -- 1/14/2008, 3:52 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/14/2008, 3:50 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
Reg Lake -- 1/14/2008, 3:14 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
Kyle Lindstrom -- 1/14/2008, 3:28 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
vk1nf -- 1/14/2008, 2:32 pm
Re: Other: Building a kayak paddle
Lucky -- 1/14/2008, 12:44 pm