>>I was looking at pigtails (cow tails) for a towing rig. Is there any particular reason why one couldn't use a piece of stretch cord (possibly of the sailboat variety) and a pair of rope climbing caribeeners? Thoughts? Yeah, several years back I had the same idea. Why spend the money when I can make my own? So I spent about a week tracking down and collecting all the materials I needed to make my own homemade "cow tail" - the hollow webbing and the bungee cord, and the stainless "D" ring and carabineer. Then I spent the better part of a weekend attempting to put it all together in a manner that could withstand the stress of a tow without coming apart. When I finished I had a pretty good product, if I do say so myself! Only then did I look at the price of what it would cost to buy one. My materials alone were more then the commercial model! When you throw in all the labor - - -. Well, I just bout a new "rescue" pfd and paid the extra for the commercial tow tether. Ya live and ya learn :-) Scott So.Cal. *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Oct 16 2006 - 15:40:07 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:21 PDT