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| - | ==== Onno small midwing Paddle vs. Epic small midwing..... ==== | ||
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| - | **Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
| - | 07/15/08 #4651 | ||
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| - | After selling my 3 old paddles last month, I wanted to replace them\\ | ||
| - | with one really good adjustable paddle. After seeing Simon's Onno\\ | ||
| - | paddle and the easy lever-lock for adjusting the length, I set out to\\ | ||
| - | purchase one. This wasn't easy at first because Onno is like a one-\\ | ||
| - | person company and I couldn't get a response back from him (Patrick\\ | ||
| - | Onno)for a two-week period. Turns out that he was moving his factory\\ | ||
| - | (garage)and had not hooked up to the internet just yet. Finally, I\\ | ||
| - | connected with Patrick and my paddle arrived exactly 9 days later. So\\ | ||
| - | my paddle arrived last night and I compared the blade size to my\\ | ||
| - | small Epic. It was actually larger than the Epic small mid-wing and\\ | ||
| - | only a little smaller that the Epic midwing. It's larger than one and\\ | ||
| - | smaller than the other so maybe it has it's uses. The quality of\\ | ||
| - | construction was as good as any other paddle. I actually wanted to\\ | ||
| - | say that it was as good as a Mark Porter constructed Epic and not a\\ | ||
| - | Chinese made Epic, but I held my tongue. | ||
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| - | So this morning I met up with 2 locals which I will refer to as Rick\\ | ||
| - | and Marc (I don't want to use their last names in order to hide their\\ | ||
| - | identity). We set out to paddle around Lummi island at 0830 this\\ | ||
| - | morning with some really superb conditions. We went counter clockwise\\ | ||
| - | from the Gooseberry store parking lot and immediately I noticed that\\ | ||
| - | there was a 'creepy factor' when I was alone on the water with them.\\ | ||
| - | I was rather proud of my new paddle and it seemed to be working quite\\ | ||
| - | well as we traveled across Hale's Pass. I looked over at Rick and\\ | ||
| - | asked him "What length of Paddle are you using"?\\ | ||
| - | Rick: "I don't know. Marc, what length am I using"?\\ | ||
| - | Marc: "205"\\ | ||
| - | Larry: So Rick, what model of GPS is that"?\\ | ||
| - | Rick: "I don't know. Marc, what model of GPS is this"?\\ | ||
| - | Marc: "205"\\ | ||
| - | So you can see why this was getting weird. Not weird like the time\\ | ||
| - | that Joost saw that Shaun and I wore matching shoes, pants, shirt,\\ | ||
| - | and underwear, but a twilight zone kinda weird. They only spoke when\\ | ||
| - | I spoke to them and when I thought they weren't looking, they would\\ | ||
| - | communicate with each other by twitching their eyebrows. I would say\\ | ||
| - | something to Marc and he would look at Rick and Rick's eybrows would\\ | ||
| - | start dancing like a Hula girl's backside and then Marc would answer\\ | ||
| - | back to me.\\ | ||
| - | Most of the first half of the trip was against a current and we did\\ | ||
| - | get a few large tug boat wakes to chase down. The Onno paddle\\ | ||
| - | launches you better than the Epic small midwing but you pay the price\\ | ||
| - | of the larger blade when you are going a long distance. So it appears\\ | ||
| - | that the Onno will be superior downwind. The 'catch' feels so much\\ | ||
| - | like the Epic that I gotta think that Patrick Onno has owned a few\\ | ||
| - | Epics before he started making his own paddles. | ||
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| - | So we rounded Carter Point and finally starting to enjoy the flood\\ | ||
| - | tide. We were cruising back up through Hale's pass and Rick noted\\ | ||
| - | that we were cruising at a high speed. So I asked Rick "how fast are\\ | ||
| - | we going"?\\ | ||
| - | Rick: "I don't know. Marc, how fast are we going"?\\ | ||
| - | Marc: Twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch.\\ | ||
| - | Rick; "Marc says we are doing 205".\\ | ||
| - | Larry: "Marc, how many girls did you ask to go on a date before one\\ | ||
| - | said yes"?\\ | ||
| - | Marc: "205"\\ | ||
| - | I stayed quiet after that and kept to myself. As we headed north up\\ | ||
| - | the Pass my GPS showed speeds at 9 to 10.5 mph. A nice way to finish\\ | ||
| - | a long paddle. As I beached my boat I noted that we had taken 205\\ | ||
| - | minutes to paddle around Lummi. Weird, huh?\\ | ||
| - | LG | ||
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