Snow_Dog wrote on Aug 17^th, 2009 at 11:11pm:

Kingfisher wrote on Aug 17th, 2009 at 8:06pm: I had the exact same experience as SD. On my first solo trip i was fully committed to a double blade to the tune of a couple hundred bucks. KF was a lot more patient with the double-blade learning curve than me.  Then again, if I'd just invested $200 into a double-blade, I bet I would have been a lot more patient!

I'm committed, I spent a WHOLE $50 bucks on my double paddle ;)
The way I looked at it, with an available T-handle kit, the worse that would happen is I wound up with 2 back-up paddles 8-)