One of my local shops rents out demo paddles so I tried a Werner Cameno
with the bent saft. 220cm. Nice paddle but on the short side for me.
Ended up getting a Aqua-bound Eagle Ray full carbon. Trying it out
today.


Courtney wrote:
Good point Mike. If he decided to get a low angle paddle then it'll likely
be on the longer side. If it's high angle then shorter would be better.

Courtney


"Michael Daly" wrote in message
...
Andrew wrote:

The only thing I've seen advertised before is the length of the entire
paddle. However, I saw someone (maybe on here?) say that they had an
xxx 145. It would make sense that the shaft length is 145 cm.


Lendal is one of the few companies that emphasizes determining paddle size
by
considering shaft size separately. They sell shafts by length and
stiffness and
then add the blades. However, retailers usually take the Lendal paddles
and add
a sticker stating overall length.

It really makes no sense to talk about overall length unless you are
comparing
two paddles with the same blade length. If you compare a long-bladed
paddle to
a short-bladed paddle, having the same overall length means you're
comparing
apples and oranges.

Mike