Lacey Posted something the other day about liking the feel of his wooden paddles on the OC1.

A while ago I made an extremely light Pauwlonia, Balsa and Cedar SUP paddle for my mate Dan McDonald of DMS Surfboards. The deal was I made it, he glassed it. He has been too busy to do it so I am taking over.

The experiment is: Can you make a Balsa laminated shaft stiff while being stupidly light???

For this I will use Uni Directional Carbon tape glassed onto the back of the shaft with epoxy resin along with some other bits and pieces.

Below are photos of the paddle, I will post more along the way as this one takes place with weights etc etc.