Paddle care

As I said in yesterday's post, I didn't spend my time out of the boat just lying around.  I did all kinds of things both related and unrelated to paddling.  One of the paddling-related things I did was refurbish some of my wooden paddles:

At the very least, they were due for a new coat of spar varnish.  A couple of them needed some fiberglass repair.  The second one from the left needed a new T-grip because I had broken the old one off on the Gauley in September.

Equipment overhaul is an easy thing to keep putting off, so it feels good to have these paddles all slicked up and ready to go.