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I say buy a light carbon bent shaft and carry your straight bruiser as a spare for moving water. Or maybe a wood shaft with carbon blade would give the needed shaft strength for pries but eliminate a lot of the weight, especially in the blade which seems to make the biggest difference.
I've got an old Black Bart I'd sell you cheap. I got it used with an old C1 racing canoe and it's too long and heavy for me. Looks to be pretty heavy duty and in good shape. 53" I believe. Probably 12oz. I think they're something like a 14* bend rather than the more standard 12*
“Too heavy…probably 12 oz”
I have to agree that our wood paddles feel awfully heavy when I switch from a carbon stick.
If you don’t have a carbon bent Take Alan up on that Black Bart. I had a foundling Black Bart years ago that sounds identical. It was too long for my uses and when I lent it to a friend he loved it so much I never asked for it back. It was a wonderfully light and responsive bent shaft and if I had it now I would think about cutting it down from 53” to 47 or 48 for the decked canoes and reinstalling the grip.
If a 12oz carbon piece of paddle history doesn’t interest you Alan can bring it out to the Chiricahuas some day and I’ll trade him bunk and breakfast for it.