Gabriel L Romeu wrote: > > > > > Doug Lloyd wrote: > > > As far as Input to Lotus, I met the R&R guy at the PT Symposium. I had some > > > real concerns over the 50 foot tow rope that I used on the Storm Island tow > > > for 6 hours (needed a better way to shorten it to 30 feet). The guy was > > > more interested in a blond that was walking on the beach than hearing my > > > input. Fine. My next purchase will be from Palm Equipment. > > I am in the process of designing a tow rope system consisting of a 15' > one side, 50(?)' on the other with shock cord on both. the rationale > for the 50' was to be long enough to span breakers. This represents > quite a bit of bulk however, and if there are some good arguments for > shortening the long one I woudl be very happy hearing it. > > thanks all I believe several suppliers do have a dual length rope set up with one end being on the short side for retrieval of an empty kayak or closer hauling and the other length being longer. I hope some one jumps in here. My memory is that the shorter one is 10-15 feet and the longer one about 35 to 50 feet. If you need to reduce bulk get rope of a smaller diameter. I think too much of the cord and bungee used in kayaking is much too thick and bulky. It is isn't as if one is rock climbing and has to deal with the extreme load forces of gravity in a fall. Surpisingly small diameter rope will do in kayaking. The same with carabiners used around kayaks. Paddlers tend to get them with rated load capacities more in line with rock climbing than with what one actually needs on the water. I am very conscious of this because of hefting folding kayak bags around. A half pound or so saved in weight of carabiners, bungee, deck lines, etc. is a half pound that one doesn't have to heft. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 10 1999 - 08:49:58 PST
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