I see this question come up frequently on Paddle boarding social media groups. Unfortunately, asking a group of random strangers on the internet isn’t always the most reliable source of information. I’ve seen answers to this question that range from “that’s almost right” to making things up with no source for those claims. Occasionally, and not often enough, there are some good answers out there as well, but they unfortunately tend to get outnumbered by those that are just plain wrong. So I’m glad you came to us for an answer! Aside from performing our own in-depth, quantitative, testing, we…