Every paddler’s worst nightmare a broken paddle blade do we throw the paddle away and buy a new one which would be quite expensive? No we don’t need to do that most paddles can be repaired with a little time and patience for a fraction of the cost of the replacement paddle this is how we do it.

After recently breaking a blade in some big surf I made some enquiries on how to

Replace a broken blade the lads from brookbanks gave me some good advice

This is how I did it

First I marked my blade collar or shaft and the blade moulding line with a Stanley knife so that I knew the exact angle too put my new blade on (fig 1 )

then I got a hot air gun and set it up so that it couldn’t move then rotated the blade joint over the top of it by about two inches until it got hot (fig 2)

then with a bit of help from another person twist and pull apart,(fig 3)

Get some araldite (fig 6) and spread on the inside of the shaft (fig 7) and on the new blade spigot (fig 8)

Slowly push the spigot into the shaft (fig 9) making sure you line the paddle up with your marks and clean off the excess araldite,(fig 10) then place somewhere carefully too dry