<< 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." I do like the simplicity of your spray skirt idea. The more lines and tethers we come up with, the more likely we are to become tangled. I would have thought that all this worry about tethers was exagerated, except that someone appears to have drowned becaues of becoming tangled in a tether while fishing from a kayak in the San Juans this summer. A simple large, easy to operate carabiner clipping the skirt loop to a short tether does seem to be nice and simple. The more I think about it the better I like it. Nick Lyle *************************************************************************** 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 - 13:21:36 PDT
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