I have not tried it yet, but I’ve noticed that all the native GPs in the Carnegie Natural History Museum’s “Polar World” gallery, which are displayed exactly as they were collected in the field, have several windings of narrow cotton rags around the shafts just outside of the looms in the same location where conventional paddles often have the rubber drip rings. It makes sense that this would deflect some runoff. I have to remember to try this next outing, though I always use a skirt to prevent the drowned lap effect.