Back in the day, six or seven feet ago (yes, feet), one WW rescue setup was to mount a cleat on your stern deck behind your right elbow and run a line from the stern to the cleat. You could pull the line out, run it through the front loop of a boat, recleat, and do a close tow. The advent of rescue vests pretty much ended that setup. I also have a short loop of 1" webbing on my stern grab handle, since Dagger saw fit to put the handle over a foot from the end of the boat, making it impossible for a swimmer to find it. For surf work, I use a bow painter of floating line long enough to double under the deck bungies, so i can hold onto it if I have to swim in. Doesn't get a lot of use for that, but as someone says, sometimes you want to be able to tie up to something and leave the boat in the water during a stop. Steve Joe P. wrote: > Since we'd been using them as examples lately, WW kayaks rarely have > bow painters. --Sometimes rear painters set up to be used as > towlines. -- Steve Cramer Athens, GA http://www.savvypaddler.com *************************************************************************** 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 Apr 25 2008 - 08:20:42 PDT
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