Adaptive paddle

Step 5 Finished design

I made clips for the paddle shaft with an aluminium rod (approx 1.5cm x 2mm) and stainless bolts with wingnuts to allow people to change paddly in the field or account for tapered shafts.

This was designed for Josh who is right handed with the idea being you flipped it over and attached the paddle accordingly... but it seems to work just as well for both right hand and left without having to reseat the paddle.

So, this is designed to work with the fibre glass rod and bungee cord as seen in the very first photo. The advantage of thie desing over both the original and the first revision is that this allows the athlete to lift the paddle out of the water away from the hull (fault of the second design is that its like a catipllar track in motion) yet this maintains the blade at 90 to the direction of travel,

Comments

[BottomlessPizzaPit]

Never tried anything with outrigger canoes before, but being without full use of my left hand/wrist, I appreciate the fact that you took the time to create something like this.

[suzyqhoo]

Great design!  Adding it to my collection of paddling adaptations!