In a message dated 9/15/99 10:05:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, nickjean_at_speakeasy.org writes: << A disadvantage of the SPRAY SKIRT AS TETHER idea is that you might rip your skirt or damage it's elastic just when you really need a good spray skirt.>> If you experience the types of forces you are talking about in your other thread. I haven't and I probably wouldn't use the tether in anything which could possibly generate such forces. But you make a good point. I have considered the idea of having a belt around my body, with a strap running through the grab loop to the side-release buckle. I'm just not sure it isn't overkill. << It seems to me that TOWING FROM A POINT UNDER THE KAYAK would certainly tangle, or even break, the rudder when the towed boat rose higher than the tow boat due to wave action.>> Rudder??? Excuse me? :^) <<Yes, of course, and an argument might be made to use a fairly slender Nylon line for maximum stretchiness, but not so thin it would break under momentary loads of a couple thousand pounds.>> Or possibly a bunji shock-absorber like we use in tow systems? Happy Paddling, Harold *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Sep 15 1999 - 12:53:15 PDT
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