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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Gear Forum Bent shaft or Straight paddle for Wenonah Advantage |
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02/24/2020 07:57PM
Bent Shaft all the way. Besides Sit and Switch style you can do a J stroke on a bent if you choose. Actually you can do almost every stroke with a bent. Back in the Late 80s a guy named Harry Roberts introduced the Americana Touring Technique about the same time Free Style came out. It was geared towards canoe like the Advantage . It involved linking strokes with a good lean for aggressive turning using a bent shaft. I could almost get a 180 with my Advantage.
02/25/2020 09:32AM
I use a black bart 50" paddle and find it to work just as good as my double blade. I've stopped bringing the double blade as a backup and just bring my other bart paddle. I waiver between 3-5 each side depending on what my reason for paddling is.
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." – Bilbo Baggins
02/25/2020 11:00AM
VaderStrom: "I use a black bart 50" paddle and find it to work just as good as my double blade. I've stopped bringing the double blade as a backup and just bring my other bart paddle. I waiver between 3-5 each side depending on what my reason for paddling is. "I also use a 50" bent Black Bart paddle with my Advantage. My back up is a 50" bent carbon fiber that I suspect is an older ZRE that I picked up ion Ebay years ago. Love the Black Bart.
serenity now
02/25/2020 07:46PM
VaderStrom: "I waiver between 3-5 each side depending on what my reason for paddling is. "
I do the same:
3 per side: trolling.
4 per side: making tracks.
5 per side: mother-in-law in pursuit.
"I don't care what you believe. I care what you can prove." -Philosopher & Mathematician JJJ
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