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On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 03:40:58PM -0600, Eric Pederson wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:22:04PM -0800, Mac Davis wrote:
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> > A tether should be long enough to allow you to reach the water, otherwise
> > you'll be awkwardly dangling by your own weight and find it hard to move
> > into a position to get back on board.
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> See, I subscribe to the theory that a tether should keep you aboard the
> boat. Hanging over the side is not good, but neither is being dragged
> through the water. However, on such a small boat, with commercially
> available tethers, a choice may have to be made.
It really is just a matter of priorities.
We have the following design goals
0) keep you attached to the boat
1) keep you on the boat
2) avoid hanging over the side
3) allow you to reach all the places you need to reach
4) convenient to use
Of course, if you have 1, you have 0 as well.
If you are designing a tether for a child, then you can optimize for 1
and 2, easily.
For an adult single hander, 3 is a much higher priority, and 2 and 3
may be impossible to implement simultaneously, as a practical matter.
A long tether attached to the mast or similar location meets 0,2,3, and
4. It also has the benefit of extreme simplicity.
-- Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain
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