Peter, My home made waist towline has about 15 meters of line that I have daisy chained to 17'. The chain is held by a close to the waist brass snaphook. If I need more, I release the snaphook, Usually, I don't. All I'm trying to do is drag an unfortunate soul back into an eddyline or out from a rock and a watery place. I do not want the added time it takes to make the line go taut, or for that matter, all that line in the water, anyway. I augment my waist tow with a contact tow, tied with a quick releasable knot on the front deck. I really like towing from my jamcleat and fairlead behind the cockpit coaming, as it is configured the same way, but often I just don the waist system and call it a day. If you want a pic, backchannel me and I'll send over a couple. Cheers, Rob G *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Dec 29 2006 - 20:27:18 PST
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