>Rob wrote: >Could it also be useful for the towed boat to have a quick release >attachment? Are there any tow systems which allow for this? My boat has a pair of small cleats just forward of the cockpit coaming. They came factory installed as part of a "paddle park" system, but something similar could be retrofitted to most hard shelled boats. I run a line from one cleat up through the bow U bolt and back down to the opposite cleat. Any pontential tower is instructed to clip into the line, not the U bolt, at the bow. If I need to slip the tow at my end, I just release one end of the line and pull it through the U bolt and towline clip. I have to haul the line in, and I can't re-thread it at sea without help from another boat, but if I was being re-hooked up for a tow, there always would be another boat. I expect folding boaters could rig an equilivant system with D-rings on webbing loops, attached to wide, stress-dispersing patches on the skin, and perhaps connecting through to appropriate places on the frame... Philip *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Apr 05 2005 - 11:47:21 PDT
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