Take-Apart 2-Piece flat blade kayak paddle

The flat blade Carlisle & Caviness Take-Apart's run $49. We have the Carlisle brand in 7' size and mostly Caviness in the 7'6" size. We would point out that distributors like NRS are charging this same price for a one-piece paddle, and most distributors now get around $60 to $65 for the basic flat blade take-aparts.

With the shaft extending nearly to the tip, these basic blades are as strong as anything you can buy. Our rental customers beat the living doo-doo out of them and they never snapped. These are also the heaviest paddles we sell at about 3 pounds for the 7' Carlisle Take-Apart, and a full 3-1/2 pounds for the Caviness in a 7'6" size.

Many boaters compare the feel of a flat blade paddle to a two-by-four, so if you are looking for efficiency in your paddle better to spend a bit more moolah. The 7' Carlisles have white blades and a blue shaft, and the 7'6" Caviness paddles have red blades and black shafts. We are no longer stocking 96" lengths in the flat blade models due to low demand, but we will special order them if you want at least four. You can get the 8' size by ordering the Caviness Tri-Pack that we carry, however.

We have a very few handle adaptor kits left for Carlisle flat blade paddles in this section of our site as well (a handle kit turns one Carlisle take-apart into two canoe/raft paddles). These do not work for the Caviness brand because Caviness drills their button holes in a different location from Carlisle.

Please specify which of the two sizes you want in the order notes.