Don, having read about your newest paddle weights I went back to my "floppy archive" on greenland paddles and found Greg's posting from Feb 2001:

Posted By: Greg Stamer
Date: Saturday, 17 February 2001, at 11:21 p.m.

I received email asking about the weight of my favorite cedar paddle, so I borrowed a triple beam balance and observed the following:

Solid Western Red Cedar (homemade, oil finish)....................31.1 ounces
Betsie Bay Storm, laminated (older model, never refinished).......33.6 ounces
Betsie Bay Greenlander, laminated (older model, refinished once)..36.2 ounces
Maligiaq Padilla's '98 Championship paddle, solid pine............37.3 ounces
Superior Kayaks (unshouldered) laminated pine, oil finish.........45.5 ounces

Some other postings in the same archive quote weights in the upper twenties, for narrow (OK?) paddles or thin (not so OK?) ones. So if you have built solid ones as I trust you have ... In fact, some of the carbon euros I have reliable info on are around 28. The one I have is about 29, and it is the lightest (just barely) one I currently have.

Inspired by the idea of using water I then built a balance using two 1500 cc plastic bottles (with handles), a 110 cm beam, and some string. That was easy! It also appears that by balancing the dry apparatus (two bottles) before hanging the paddle ... well, it looks pretty easy to get say +/- 1% accuracy.

My greenland paddle came in at 31 oz which is not bad for spruce with thick epoxy at tips and three coats of paint. In fact, it is the same as Greg's homemade oil finished WRC paddle which we must take for a standard in these matters. And hasn't Greg been praising it's light weight in many postings!?

Looking at that list above the Betsie Storm at 33 oz really stands out. They do however quote 30 oz for their new Greenlander and 26 for their Graflite. Maybe these are the realistic limit? What do you think?