Greetings:

After a year or more of desultory building I am approaching completion of my first strip-built boat, Nick's Microbootlegger. It has occurred to me that I am going to need some paddles if I am actually going to propel it through the water. I've seen lots on this forum about the virtues of Greenland style paddles. Would they be suitable for a beamier double-paddle canoe like the Microbootlegger (roughly 27" at the widest point)? Obviously with that boat I don't plan on rolling the boat; mostly it will be used on lakes for day trip sorts of fun. My on-the-water experience has largely been sliding-seat rowing for the last few years, so any advice about the appropriate things to build for this boat will be appreciated. And in any case, suggestions about how to decide on the appropriate paddle length for that particular boat would be helpful, whatever style paddle is best.