I dunno?! I'll dig back into my old posts to see the forces involved were...I can't remember who figured it out before... Your math is figuring a static load--a 300 lb. load "hanging" on one end of the rope. I haven't had any rough water tow practice, but on flat water, the load felt like less than 5 lbs. Even when coming up to speed, I don't think it felt like more than 10 lbs. I was towing my brother, and I kept turning around and asking him if he was paddling! I think I need to try it in some rough water to get a more accurate view. I know forces could greatly exceed that on either end of a surging wave. I would think the maximum dynamic load could be a few hundred pounds, but not the average working load. Who was it that did the bungie/towrope calculations? Shawn Philip Torrens wrote: > I'm not an engineer (nor do I play one on TV), but do you think that's > strong enough? Given that a paddler alone may weigh 150lbs or more, plus the > weight of the boat and gear, could bring you to the working load of 300lbs. > before you even deal with a dynamic load (boats on either side of a long > swell, the jerk on the line as the towing boat comes up to speed and begins > to haul the towee) etc. etc. > > Philip Torrens > N49°16' W123°06' -- Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 2000 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.missoulaconcrete.com/shawn/ *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Mar 28 2000 - 13:46:27 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:22 PDT