Here's another option: Put a stainless steel D-ring on the deck of your boat, right behind the cockpit and on or right next to the center line of the boat. It serves a double purpose for me: 1) security, I run a cable through the d-ring and around the boat (I also use the plastic-covered, long wire rope purchased at a hardware store + a lock) 2) towing. I am one of those folks who abhors the idea of towing from a life jacket/waist ring. The D-ring can be easily reached by me from the cockpit, so that I can release a towing line if needed. This towing rig has a high-tech plastic snap shackle, 18" of marine, fairly heavy duty bungie cord, then plastic floating line to the end loop of the boat. Also has a plastic, easy-release buckle there at the stern. Gives me a quick-deploying tow system, and the option of adding a long tow rope to that if needed in heavy seas. It was painful for me to drill the holes to mount the D-ring (using stainless steel nuts and bolts), but I also had to drill in front of me on the deck for under-deck storage clips and water pump, and I note many holes already there for deck lines - but it all works. Natalie Natalie Wiest Houston TX *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
>Here's another option: Put a stainless steel D-ring on the deck of your boat, > right behind the cockpit and on or right next to the center line of the boat. I encountered such a system this Spring during some rough water rescue practice wherein the hull of my water laden boat flexed around just such a SS U bolt apparatus on the rescuers back deck as we flailed in the waves trying to effect a t type rescue. I know my boat should technically not have been on his back deck but the ocean had it's own ideas which didn't fit into our plans and my boat's hull suffered the consequences. Larry Koenig Baton Rouge,LA *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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