I like my Duramax blades for the twist lock but I miss the bite of my eight inch Carlisle blades. Sawyer might be interested in making them if there were a demand so my question is, "Is there a demand"?
I already feel like the Dynelite Wide blades they sell are too grabby sometimes, but I'd be interested in trying the wider ones. If I was ordering straight from them I would have gotten the Shoal Cut Squartops I think, but might have regretted it. I got mine from DRE during a sale, and am happy.
I only use the duramax blades rarely (spares) but when I have I feel they have plenty of bite... I'm leaning towards narrower rather than wider. My logic: I ran shoal cuts for most of last year, then went back to my regular dynelites (7") and I really like them better. One of the issues is in deep water the shoal cuts got too grabby. They're great in shallow water - but made the oars feel a lot longer in bigger water. I need to get another set of dynelites and am actually thinking of going with the 6"
Also quick calculations show that 8" carlisles are only 6 square inches larger than 7" duramax... going 8" with duramax would increase that to 240 sq inches (24 sq inches bigger than the carlisles). Personally I think that would be too much unless you run really short oars.
The standard duramax is longer than the 8" Carlisles for comparison by around 3" Which if you dig in adds some bite
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