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markus86 said..

Yep!! In the middle of my bottom hand. Looks like yours was the same?

When my board chopped my paddle in half, I went to a local SUP shop.

When he assembles a paddle for a customer, he saves the pieces he cuts off the shaft to size it.

He found a piece that fit nicely inside my shaft pieces, epoxied the "plug" and lined up the shaft properly....like doweling it together. After the 5 min epoxy set up, he wrapped the repair with fiberglass cloth wetted out with epoxy. Quick and dirty... after lunch, I was back on the water. The paddle held up and went with a board I sold. Still together.

But.... I now have a back-up paddle for those events.

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Sandsy1 said..

markus86 said..

Yeah, right below the bottom hand , the paddle was a $160 job inspecting the the wall thickness of the carbon fibre tube was only about 1-2mm. I'm thinking it is a case of you get what you paid for.

What quality/ price was your paddle ?

Yep!! In the middle of my bottom hand. Looks like yours was the same?

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supthecreek said..
When my board chopped my paddle in half, I went to a local SUP shop.

When he assembles a paddle for a customer, he saves the pieces he cuts off the shaft to size it.

He found a piece that fit nicely inside my shaft pieces, epoxied the "plug" and lined up the shaft properly....like doweling it together. After the 5 min epoxy set up, he wrapped the repair with fiberglass cloth wetted out with epoxy. Quick and dirty... after lunch, I was back on the water. The paddle held up and went with a board I sold. Still together.

But.... I now have a back-up paddle for those events.

Yeah might just dowel repair this one and keep it as a backup, probably will be the strongest its ever been now that it is reinforced in the highest stressed location in the guts.

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markus86 said..

yep...on my 3 day out on a sup..broke a Naish paddle. Taught me how to be more aware where everything is when getting dumped. Was an expensive lesson as I went and got a $200 carbon from the local store, which I ended up using once and quickly realised the need for some shaft flex, my $200 used once paddle sits in the corner of the garage, and I am back to a Naish quality paddle.

Yes, it hapenned to ... the post office: bought an used paddle sent by mail, came broken in half. Repaired like supthecreek, still doing good.

And once, falling at the bottom of a drop, landing on my back with the paddle across my shoulders: the blade leveraged on the water and snapped off the shaft.

A friend had its shaft break in his lower hand... carbon splinters are very nasty :-(

Twice...bought a new shaft after the first break and when it snapped the second time i used the previously broken shaft to repair the second snapped shaft (cut a 200mm length, split it down the middle and epoxied it over the break). It's lasted about 15mths so far.

Yes. Mine was a cheapy that came with my wife's board. It lasted just on 12 months and then crunch, gone!! Have gone to a lighter smaller blade and so far so good.

Hey Marcus. I have also repaired quite a few with old shaft cut offs as inserts. I put a wide enough cut along the cut off so it fits tightly inside the shaft, glue with epoxy and wrap in uni-directional carbon tape and epoxy. I also cut the end of the insert at an angle to reduce the hard spot in the shaft. Seems to work out as I haven't had one re break anywhere near the repair yet.

Cheers Bill