RE: [Paddlewise] Tow Rigs [Improvised]

From: <kayakwriter_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:35:10 -0400
Cunning and inexpensive, and I might use it if no other options existed. My concern would be the lack of a "quick-release" capability, unless you tied the loop with a "slippery knot" at the front of the chest, or cut it with your knife.

Cheers,

Philip

"Joyce Family" <tfj4_at_comcast.net> wrote:

>Suggestion for a minimum kit of gear that might be carried by each paddler
>for other purposes but that could also be adapted to a towing rig if need
>be:
>For each tower, 1 runner/piece of webbing, knottable, to be looped over PFD
>and act as chest harness, connected by 1 locking carabiner to minimum 50
>feet of light line attached to towee.  Would a self-equalizing anchor
>connected between two towers with another carabiner help with shock
>absorption?
>
>Reactions?
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