Final Product

Here's the final product, although not the one I was grinding in the previous slides. For this one I cut of and reattached the tip. Made it a little trickier, especially cause the saw removed some of the wood, but I think it's not half bad in the end. This is the paddle I'm currently using.

Paddle Repair

August 26th 2008
So some of you want to know what I’m doing out here. As you have probably heard, there are no boats being built on Rarotonga right now so repairing paddles and learning how to use them. This post will show you roughly what I do. The repair I’m showing is about as bad as it gets, the whole blade broke in half. I’ve done two of these so far; most repairs are a lot smaller. To do this one ... read more

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Named after Captain COOK, who sighted them in 1770, the islands became a British protectorate in 1888. By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand. The e... ... read more

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