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.

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.

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 :-(

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.