Bob Volin made some very good observations about motorboats towing other vessels: they tend to tow too fast, and in general a motorized boat towing boats in tandem doesn't work well. My personal experience with motor boats towing non-motorized craft was many years ago, when I spent some time racing very small sailboats. Very occasionally, someone would need a tow, and a motor boat would offer to help. We learned to turn down those offers and wait for larger sailing boats when we could, because it was essentially impossible to convince the motor-boat skipper not to tow boats at high speed, or with a very short tow line. Several boats were seriously damaged in those attempts. Bill Hansen *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Feb 27 2000 - 05:30:12 PST
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