Paddle length for 5' paddler?

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#21

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– Last Updated: Sep-19-12 6:20 PM EST –

usual method to increase blade volume without increasing width is to make a modified 1850's design with some length of the side straight instead of a single taper from top of shoulder to the arc of the tip.

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Roy

if you wish it to load farther back in the stroke ...then you make the tip arc smaller and taper to a wider point a few inches back toward the shoulder {like a De Rijp paddle from the 1700's} many ways to cut a GP. Is no such thing as just a single way to cut one

#22

Chuck Hoist’s instructions
Was what I followed, he also says for a longer paddle to be an arm span plus a cubit rather than the wrist. Hindsight, build longer, trim as necessary.