Dr D's
Martin R
advised me to buy in those uncluttered days of 1997.
Just the one mishap to report when the shaft started to fill with water
which the nice people in the factory fixed right away as well as putting new
monster stickers on the blades.
No obvious signs of wear despite two Alpine trips and countless UK
excursions - although I am getting bored with the colour so perhaps it is
time to change. Now should I choose Yellow to match my Alpine big water boat
(Stubby) or Orange to complement my UK boat (007) ?
Dave Cooke
Exe, Dart Loop, etc. They show lots of wear on the blades, numerous chips
and bits missing, I'd say one more season and it's into the skip. Nice and
light but too prone to damage, I'll go for a tougher make next time.
Dave C
Taunton Canoe Club
Jim Wallis
JIM
Craig West
news:38309FBD...@cableinet.co.uk...
> Werner are doing some nice orange blades!
... and they're great to paddle with too. We have 3 sets of Wanachees (?)
in Yellow, Orange and Green. The Yellow and Orange ones are fantastic and
whilst they are chipping a tiny little bit around the edges in places after
8 months use or so, we do tend to come into contact with a lot of concrete
and metal here in Northampton!
The Green ones are owned by some wuss that only gets them wet once every 3
months, so I expect they're still in mint condition (... Neil, are you
lurking out there???!!!)
Craig
Ben Dickinson
Ben
Craig West <craig...@tesco.net> wrote in message
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Jim Wallis
condition to yours after 12 months of scottish and alpine paddling.
I was looking at the assymetric model (name escapes me) at the Tyne tour
and was quite taken by the orange, which is odd because I prefer blues
and blacks usually.
JIM
G R Ashcroft
it, and I took them back after 6 months. Got some Lendal manias, much
better. For Kayak paddles that is.
They do not really stand up to the abuse of club use.
GWyn
Dave Cooke (da...@dccs.co.uk) wrote:
: Interesting, I've had Dr D's for about three years, well used on the Barle,
Peik Borud
G R Ashcroft <G.R.As...@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
<813dvg$9h3$1...@sirius.dur.ac.uk>...
> I have had a set of Doctor D's in the past. They were not really up to
> it, and I took them back after 6 months. Got some Lendal manias, much
> better. For Kayak paddles that is.
> They do not really stand up to the abuse of club use.
>
Hi from Peik:
Got both, Dr. D's are OK for pool and squirt messing round,
lightweight "toy"-paddles. Lendal Mania was cheap too, not
too strong and far too HEAVY. Real paddles don't come
cheap, I paid almost twice the UK plastic paddle price for
my Lightning, never used the others for serious paddling since,
never regretted the purchase. Werners have similar models
(blue skypole with integral ovals, thin composite blades).
Used to have a Gorilla River Play (got it cheap), blade was a
little too flexible and developed a crack which I repaired, liked
this one better than the "Nylon 12" things anyway, but lost it
during a bad swim :-( Just my 2 cents
--
Peik Borud
Norway
peik(at)online.no
news
I had a set of Dr D's from age 15 to age 20, and I didn't manage to bugger
them up at all despite two Alps trips and countless trips down scrapy
ditches in the North East of England.
Only problem with them was that they were heavy (old titanium shafted
variety), they filled with water, and when I dropped them at Hurley a couple
of years ago they sank. Joy.
I now paddle with imported Asymettric Lightnings, which are the absolute
dogs bol Ocks. They go so fast through the water that your arms blur, also
they don't seem to crack, just abrade slowly away at the end.
Sadly one trip to America and one trip around the Alps, plus paddling weirs
and HP over the last couple of years is causing them to de-laminate at the
end. I was thinking of those new Werners which were advertised in
Playboating in the last issue. That or some Robson Pogos.
Ed. Hopper
"Nothing better to do with his lunch hour than talk about paddles"