Back to business: paddles

Now that the river skiff is finished, we are turning our attention back to paddles.  More specifically, composite SUP paddles.
The plugs of our designs from Seattle are the guinea pigs for our vacuum bagging learning curve.
During the last few weeks we have made molds of one of the blades and also designed and molded two additional blades.
The newer blades are sleeker and redesigned with input from Hemel.  They are looking for a racing SUP blade with more width at the tip of profile.
Racers like maximum leverage on the water without too deep an immersion.
Here are some photos of what we have been up to...

The first mold of blade #1

Front of mold and it's plug

Sucking it up