The kneeling paddler has her canoe in better control, and becomes more one with it than one who sits.
It is well to begin as bow paddler, for your duty there, in smooth water, is to watch for obstructions such as hidden rocks and submerged logs or snags, while the paddler at the stern must steer the canoe and keep it in a straight course.
Old Man Paddler all of a sudden spoke up and said to us, looking especially at me, "One of you boys want to take the water pail and go down to the spring and get a pail of fresh water?
Say, when I heard Old Man Paddler half talking and half crying up there in his cabin, I got a very queer feeling inside of me.
The bow paddler stands well forward and tries for depth and current; the sternpaddler keeps the canoe steady in its course.
It was as fine a piece of bluff as I ever put up," grinned the paddler as he stepped ashore, holding the redoubtable gun in his hand.
Agony was stern paddler of the Dolphin, the most important position next to the Captain.
It took all of Agony's skill as stern paddler to swing the Dolphin around and keep her out of the current.
From Captain Armstrong's description, this was the exact point where the trouble with his tipsy bow-paddler had occurred, the little difficulty which had been the cause of his leaving the salvaged cask of Scotch at his next camp.
The bow paddler can keep a very sharp lookout for rocks immediately ahead, and, in a pinch, can jerk the boat bodily to one side or the other, where oarsmen have to swing it.
The excitement on the yacht very markedly increased when it was learned that the next race was to be between canoes with one paddler in each.
Others were whirling and spinning about in a manner to make even an observer dizzy, to say nothing of the struggling paddler himself.
When the party once more embarked he performed his work as chief paddler with his usual cheerfulness.
The head paddler was cautious enough to send one of his men in advance to the camp to announce his arrival, and Jack managed to get the rifles brought secretly within his stockade under cover of night.
The paddlersaid that he had had great difficulty in eluding the white men and their agents.
He said that his name was Bandoka, and he had been a paddler in Mutela's flotilla, and had suffered many times from the chicotte; he showed the marks on his back.
The paddler hurried up, followed quickly by Mr. Martindale.
He had come within a hundred and fifty miles of Ilombekabasi as a paddler on a white man's canoe; the remainder of the distance he had covered on foot.
Working the steel to and fro, he enlarged the hole as much as he could, and then withdrew his clumsy implement; the water rushed in with a gurgling noise which must, he feared, attract the attention of the paddlerjust above him.
The paddler coming down has a lighter on each side of her as the one sketched on page 38.
The three watchers could now see that it was being softly driven by a paddler who sat in the stern, and wielded a single blade.
When Ethan called this out the paddlerwaved at them, and laughed.
The paddler paddled for dear life, and Pedr, now solidly scared, embraced him from behind.
The two-hole kayak is an Aleut development used in whaling and sea-otter hunting, so far as is known; the paddlersits in the after manhole.
The very narrow bottom and narrow beam make this the most dangerous of all kayaks in the hands of a paddler unaccustomed to such craft.
Just ahead of the paddler a stand or tray on low legs holds the coiled harpoon line; and under the deck lashings are held such weapons as the lance, darts, and harpoons.
With the beam abaft midlength, the weight of the paddler trimmed the canoe by the stern somewhat, hence greater depth aft than forward was necessary to make the canoe run easily and turn readily in smooth water.
Greenland kayaks have been reported as carrying a small square sail, but this was actually a hunting screen, or camouflage, to hide the paddler and cause the seal to mistake the canoe for a cake of ice.
The paddler then slides downward and works his legs under the deck until he is seated with his hips jammed into the manhole rim.
When they were large enough to be paddled, the paddler worked over the "bow," as in a coracle.
The methods used by a paddler to right a capsized kayak, without aid and while he was still in the cockpit, have aroused the interest of many canoeists.
In general, the kayak is designed to carry one paddler, but in Alaska are kayaks that can carry two or three paddlers, each in a manhole or cockpit, or a paddler and one or two passengers.
The Eskimo are reported to be gradually losing this skill, but in late years European and American kayakers have learned this method, called the "kayak roll," of righting a decked canoe with paddler in place.
The kayak is perhaps the most efficient example of a primitive hunting boat; it can be propelled at high speed by its paddler and maneuvered with ease.
We passed other fishermen, and here and there a village; but the paddler kept to his course, and paid no attention to anything except the business in hand.
I knew a landing-place, a little below the Residency, and thither I directed the paddler to take his kufa.
Noiseless as ghosts, paddler and shooter glide along the even path till, alarmed by some keener sense than is given us, up rise wood duck, dusky duck, and teal from their reedy cover.
He chose the former and was placed as bow paddler with his back to the others and Nyoda between him and Gladys.
He was a fine paddler and his stroke matched hers exactly.
The sponson, a flat-bottomed canoe with air tanks in the sides, came into view around the cliff propelled by one paddler in the stern.
Then thepaddler said to Laieikawai and her companion, "Where are you!
When they had done speaking the paddler left them and went away as he had vowed.
And when the paddler saw Laieikawai clearly, desire came to him afresh.
So the paddler in front[8] signed to the one at the rear to turn the canoe around and take the seer back as he slept.
Each paddler takes the cue; and the canoe shoots past the danger straight as an arrow, righting herself to a new course by another lightning sweep of the pole and paddles.
One paddler pauses to bail out water with his hat.
There arose again, after the fashion of the voyageurs, the measure of the paddling song, without which indeed the paddler had not been able to perform his labor at the thwart.
The girl behind the bow paddler stepped out on the dock, followed, one by one, by those behind her, while the bow paddler sat still and held the canoe fast to the pier.
When all the rest were out the bow paddlerstepped up onto the deck.
The change of paddlers brought Anthony to the place of bow paddler in the third canoe.
As canoe and coat are waterproof, the paddler is kept dry, even in rough weather, and these cockle-shell craft will ride on a sea that would swamp an open boat.
But the kayak is easily overturned, and if the paddler is not expert in the use of his paddle, he runs a chance of being drowned, for it is not easy to disengage himself from his craft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paddler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
