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Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
By:Greg H
Date: 10/10/2008, 4:16 pm
In Response To: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle? (Scott Fitzgerrell)

: Has anyone built one? Rob Macks offers plans: anyone built one of his? I can
: find info here and there on the web, but the ratio vs. GPs must a thousand
: to one.
: Need one for my baidarka and have had a beautiful, clear-cedar 2x4 waiting
: for some years now.
: Thanks in advance, y'all!
: --Scott

You should skip the cedar, and make an epoxy/composite paddle with an all-fiberglass layup. Get it to wet out clear/translucent and you could call it an optical aleutian.....

Sorry, couldn't resist!! :-)

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Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 10/10/2008, 4:11 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Andy Waddington -- 10/21/2008, 1:00 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Kris Buttermore -- 10/24/2008, 2:28 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Andy Waddington -- 10/28/2008, 1:15 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Kris Buttermore -- 10/28/2008, 2:19 pm
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Dave Isbell -- 10/21/2008, 4:43 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Kris Buttermore -- 10/24/2008, 2:41 pm
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Thomas Ziegler -- 10/13/2008, 2:07 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Mihail -- 10/21/2008, 8:35 am
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle? *Pic*
Doug Smith -- 10/11/2008, 7:16 pm
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Roy Morford -- 10/13/2008, 12:03 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Bill Hamm -- 10/11/2008, 1:34 am
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle? *Pic*
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 10/16/2008, 4:43 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle? *Pic*
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 10/11/2008, 5:23 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Bill Hamm -- 10/16/2008, 2:15 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Carl Delo -- 10/16/2008, 1:15 am
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Greg H -- 10/10/2008, 4:16 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Etienne Muller -- 10/11/2008, 3:15 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 10/11/2008, 4:51 pm
Re: Paddle: Aleutian Paddle?
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 10/10/2008, 6:53 pm
ROFLOL *NM*
Kudzu -- 10/10/2008, 10:08 pm