> One of the advantages to having the jam cleat and fairlead on your rear deck > is that if someone forgets their towline you can hand off your waist tow to > them and use your deck mounted tow. If you want people to learn about towing, > you can be better prepared to proselytize with handing them a tow rig and > using a deck mounted one. I do always have my deck bag in my kit just in case > and once in a while it gets taken on the water. Whenever I paddle on a multi-day trip it's a given that everyone in the group has some kind of personal towing system otherwise they aren't coming! Mine is on my boat with a cleat and towing eye. It doesn't catch stuff on the back deck because I don't pile stuff on my back deck. People not in their own boats use some kind of waist / pfd system, what I've seen of these they can be very fatiguing over any period of time. However - after many years of paddling mostly multi-day trips I've never yet had to use one for real! www.flickr.com/photos/fachwen/sets/ *************************************************************************** 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 Thu Oct 19 2006 - 00:43:32 PDT
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