The Paddles That I Use for Solo Canoeing

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When I paddle a smaller, solo canoe, I often use a double-bladed kayak paddle as well as a short, straight canoe paddle.

My current selections include a Werner Shuna carbon bent shaft kayak paddle and a Grey Owl Voyageur 7" canoe paddle.

Tags: paddle,canoeing,self reliance,bushcraft,werner,grey owl

Video Transcription

seven a break for a couple minutes here on Punisher Lake just did the portage over from big porcupine just wanted to show you the paddles I'm using today for these trips when I'm using my solo canoe I like to bring a kayak paddle it's a lot more efficient than a single blade paddle you can get tours twice the strokes this is a very lightweight carbon paddles it doesn't tire me out and it's separate so I can use it as my as my yoke as well so what I like about it like the bench F it's very comfortable to use its carbon throughout all the way from the shaft and the blade it's a worker burner Shuna soon as the model Werner's the manufacturer and I use it at a 45 degree angle so what that means is the blades are offset when I put that together and this is a 210 centimeter by the way I like a short paddle it's this a high angle paddle which means it's a wider blade rather than long narrow blade wide and it's wide and short and it's meant for steep angle rather than a low angle like that that you would use from a lower kayak but for my canoe I like to get a steep angle so the reason you offset its comfort and and wind resistance so when I'm coming forward you can see this blade this blade is cutting into the wind and this one's pushing water so if it's really window actually turned that 260 degrees so this one's really slicing into the wind when I come up I'm just paddling down the Tates Creek and Algonquin Park right now and what I'm using is my rail buffer I'll get the name of it and I'll put in the comments below I forget the the forget the type but it's a sugar loaf style so short wide flat bottom epoxy bottom-4 for protective protection against the rocks and it's really short you won't be able to see the length in here but you'll see me paddling in other videos basically it's a 52-inch severloh so it's great for these little rivers just take a look at the size of this Creek it's basically it's Potter's Creek actually I paddle a lot on these types of rivers so of course you'll see me use the words for most of this trip and any trip that I'm crossing big lakes or into the waves or if I'm trying to make time but I'd like to I do like to paddle the single blade I prefer it just for enjoyment relaxation but the learners are far more efficient but you can see this is actually a deep part of this Creek a lot of its like six inches deep just barely not scraping bottom so I need to push sometimes off along the bottom or push across a beaver dam or something this is a great paddle for that pedal for two years and it's still almost perfect condition even though I put it through toe so a short paddle because the sole canoe is so short it's so low to the water that any kind of long paddle forces me to use my shoulders too much so I like this shirt paddle I can lean over I don't even lean this canoe but I can lean right over and it means the paddles rate is in the water being a short paddle short blade paddles in the water fully submerged in the water most of the time people with the short blade so thanks for watching have any questions about this or you have any questions about paddles that I use or anything else just put it in the comments below or hook up with me on Facebook okay buddy

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