>> I also use 3/16" shock cord for my paddle leash. Great stuff. Very light, and it comes in pretty colors. :-) But I use a much shorter piece (3' or so) running from the paddle shaft to a loop around my wrist. (I use a separate boat tether to provide a connection from my body to the boat.) The slack in the leash is wrapped loosly around the paddle when paddling. The slack is necessary so that I can set the paddle down and use my tethered hand without it yanking the paddle about. The wrist loop I use is sized so that if my hand is relaxed (or clenched) it will not pull out of the loop, but if I scrunch up my hand it will slip free. Of course I remove the leash in the surf. Dan Hagen >> This sounds very much like the paddle leash I made for my old Wind Swift, except that I used 1/8-inch cord and it was only about half as long as yours. The loop around the paddle shaft was loose enough that it could slide back and forth easily, and the wrist loop was loose enough that I could pull my hand out easily when, like you, I scrunched it up. For a paddle park, I added a plastic snap hook to one of my deck lines, which I would snap onto the wrist loop when I wasn't paddling. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Sep 17 1999 - 12:24:30 PDT
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