Blade styles include; beavertail, Sugar-island, and whitewater. Designed with a bent shaft to provide power and paddling efficiency by using shorter strokes and increasing stroke-rates. These paddles are ideal for racing but can be fun for recreational use as well. The blade styles include Sugar-island, whitewater and squared-off versions of both styles. Designed with recreational use in mind, the features of these paddle blades include stiffer flex to increase stroke efficiency, with a shorter, wider blade and shapes like the beavertail, Sugar-island, and the squared-off whitewater style.
These paddles offer the widest range of canoeing applications from a single paddle. These paddles are similar to the double-bladed kayak styles but manufactured in shorter lengths with narrow, symmetrical blades keeping the solo canoeists in mind.
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Recreational Recreational canoe paddles are general-purpose tools for day trips around the cottage, the campsite or the nearby lake with family and friends. Lakewater Lakewater paddles are intended for lakewater travel requiring thousands of repetitious strokes. Whitewater Whitewater paddles generally have short, square blades for quick and powerful strokes in aerated, shallow water.
Always add the blade length of the paddle you are considering to all of the above methods to determine the right length for you.
Or, try our favourite instore method:. In the end no matter what technique you use it all comes down to how the paddle actually feels and performs for you. If you are trying to decide between a few paddle shapes or sizes consider contacting us to join in on one of our paddle demos where we can bring a paddle for you to try. It is funny that many people are so shocked at how lightweight modern paddles are. No, you don't have to paddle with a whole tree - shaving off an ounce of weight here or there is important when you consider how many thousands of times you will lift your paddle throughout the course of your trip!
Wood paddles are definitely still the most popular. Though heavier than fiberglass or carbon options they flex and absorb shock well and are warmer to the touch in cold temperatures. Some wood paddles will have a fibreglass layer on the blade which increases both weight and durability. Fiberglass and Carbon paddles are generally very light and maintenance free. Manufacturers can create sharp and complex blade shapes with composite materials in comparison to wood.
The weight savings in these paddles are considerable - your arms will thank you! We moved much faster en route and never once wandered aimlessly across the lake. The design made perfect sense. But it all honestly I couldn't stand it. I've never cared about how fast one goes while they're out there. With that kind of attitude you might as well stay home in my opinion. And every time he called out the command "Hutt" I went absolutely berserk - needless to say, we've never paddled together since.
How you hold your paddle is important. Make sure to keep your one hand always on top of the grip, which is why a nice rounded top is more comfortable than a T-grip. Your other hand grabs the throat of the shaft. The distance between your hand and the where the shaft joins the blade depends on the type of stroke and type of blade.
When in doubt though, stay closer to the top of the blade for better control. For trips that have both flat water and white water choose to bring along two different types of blades. After all, all canoes must be equipped with an extra paddle. So, when paddling solo use an Otter Tail most of the time and unpack the wide, square blade for navigating rapids. When paddling tandem, the stern paddler keeps using a Beaver Tail design throughout the trip, and, since the bow person is far more important while navigating through rapids, they can change over to the square blade when flushing through the rough stuff.
Also try using a bent-shaft blade in the bow and a Otter Tail design in the stern when there's lots of big lakes to cross. To size up your paddle is just as complicated as choosing the blade style. The traditional way to get the proper length of paddle was to line it up from your nose to toe.
That doesn't work. The problem with this technique is that you are only interested in the length of the paddle between the grip and the throat of the shaft. The blade length is not part of the formula.
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