Sanborn Canoe Company - Artisan Painted Paddle - Gitchi Gummi
Gitchi Gummi, meaning “Big Water," is what the Native American Nations called, Lake Superior. The deep blue depths of that monstrous lake are echoed in this design. Countless haunting, epic, glorious and terrible tales have been spun of the Gitchi Gummi over the years. Here are a few lines of a song from one of the more famous of those tales:
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitchi Gummi. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty, that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the “Gales of November” came early.”
~ Gordon Lightfoot, The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
This design is painted on our Voyageur Heritage Paddle. With an elegantly traditional blade shape these are graceful in and out of the water. They’re perfect for lazy turns around the lake or for gracing the wall of your cabin. Each is a laminated combination of western red cedar, aspen and black walnut.
Product Details:
- Colors: White, Eldorado and Poseidon Blue
- Wood: Walnut, Aspen and Western Red Cedar
- Finish: Wood has an oil finish / Paint is finished with a SPAR Polyurethane
- Avg. Weight: 25oz.
- Blade Dimensions: 5" x 26"
- Length: 58"
- Made in Winona, Minnesota
Paddles are oversized freight. One to three paddles ship for $29.95. Additional charges on 4 or more.
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