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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
By:Mike Alanko
Date: 2/7/2014, 9:45 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg? (ancient kayaker)

Paddle length is 210cm. I have a plastic bladed carbon shaft cheap one I cut from 230 down to 210 and set the angle at a fixed 70 degrees - and another 210cm, this one a Grey Owl Mistral with an adjustable ferrule.

I recently took a rolling course with a fantastic local shop - the Complete Paddler - and heard that feathering is falling out of fashion. An unfeathered paddle certainly made rolling easier! But not easier than a Greenland paddle.

And I should absolutely try an Aleutian paddle, too, I think.

Just to add to the metrics if anyone is plugging things into equations, I'm 5'10 and 160lbs, with a longer than average torso.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
Mike Alanko -- 2/6/2014, 9:05 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
Etienne Muller -- 2/6/2014, 1:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg? *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 2/6/2014, 1:27 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
Mike Bielski -- 2/6/2014, 3:23 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
ancient kayaker -- 2/6/2014, 4:33 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
Mike Alanko -- 2/6/2014, 5:00 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg? *NM* *PIC*
Mike Alanko -- 2/6/2014, 5:28 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
ancient kayaker -- 2/6/2014, 10:55 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
Mike Alanko -- 2/7/2014, 9:45 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
Bill Hamm -- 2/9/2014, 2:57 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Nikumi 19 - skeg?
randy knauff -- 2/7/2014, 11:12 am
Re: A simple skeg
Jeff Horton -- 2/7/2014, 6:08 pm