Why the otter tail and the beaver tail paddle are named as such, I can understand. Does anyone know what the Sugar Island paddle shape is named after?
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Sugar Island Paddle
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Don’t know if there is a connection but here is a nice history of the ACA owned Sugar Island.
http://canusail.org/Zuk_Papers/sugar.html
Not an answer but another interesting read….
Sorry, didn’t mean to go off topic.
http://canusail.org/Zuk_Papers/sugar.html
Not an answer but another interesting read….
WHY ARE CANOE PADDLES THE SHAPE THEY ARE
Around 5000 years ago, a Stone Age community lived on the reedy fringes of a lake at what is now Tybrind Vig (pronounced Too-brin Vee) in Denmark. They chipped canoes out of logs and carved paddles so they could venture out onto the lake to catch the
www.academia.edu
Sorry, didn’t mean to go off topic.
Frowned on by some, but not me. I'm a stream-of-consciousness kind of guy.Sorry, didn’t mean to go off topic.
Seriously, thank you for the links. It would be too much of a coincidence if the ACA's Sugar Island wasn't the namesake.
