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Re: Paddle shaft material specifications?
By:Rick Allnutt
Date: 11/12/2002, 11:17 am
In Response To: Re: Paddle shaft material specifications? (Shawn Baker)

: If the shaft breaks and the jagged end is impaled in your femoral artery, and
: you're 15 miles from the nearest road, is it dangerous? ;)

Yes, well, not so much dangerous as fatal.

If the shaft breaks and you are 15 miles from the nearest road, and it does not impale important tissues, then the question is whether a second paddle is carried.

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Other: Paddle shaft material specifications?
Stephanie Kocura -- 11/12/2002, 9:36 am
Re: Other: Paddle shaft material specifications?
Stephanie Kocura -- 11/14/2002, 9:15 am
other sources of CF shaft applications
Luke -- 11/13/2002, 1:46 pm
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Reg Lake -- 11/12/2002, 7:49 pm
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Chip Sandresky -- 11/12/2002, 6:56 pm
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Toby Ebens -- 11/12/2002, 6:30 pm
Re: Paddle shaft material specifications?
Shawn Baker -- 11/12/2002, 10:12 am
Re: Paddle shaft material specifications?
Rick Allnutt -- 11/12/2002, 11:17 am