Re: [Paddlewise] tow rope length

Doug Lloyd wrote:
> 
> At the beginning, a 50 foot length was fine for the first hour or two of
> the Storm Island tow. ... As the hours ticked by and Andrew
> became progressively exhausted and hypothermic, we could have benefited
> from a shorter tow-line length in order to stay in closer contact. ...
> A short secondary tow line of 10 or 15 feet, as brought up
> in a couple of posts on this thred, would have been too short in our
> situation.
> 
How about a 25 foot length? Unclip from the towee's bow, run the rope
though the toggle loop (or through a biner on the loop) and bring it
back to the tower. That's tow-er, not tall thin building. If that's a
little too short, tie a figure-of-eight on a bight 10 feet behind the
tow-er and clip to that.

I can't take credit for any of this, a friend of mine was doing these
rope tricks with my tow-line while I was pulling a beginner upstream
against the tide.

Steve
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