Commonly used in open water not rivers

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Commonly used in open water not rivers
Posted by: FrankNC on Jan-01-13 9:51 PM (EST)

In open water where your boat can blow away from you, they are commonly used. In rivers where there is a risk of capsizing the risk of entanglement is too high for them to be recommended.

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Kayak tether - crowellsr - Jan-01-13 9:35 PM
- Commonly used in open water not rivers - FrankNC - Jan-01-13 9:51 PM
  - Use on rivers - crowellsr - Jan-01-13 9:58 PM
- Use floating painter lines - Glenn_MacGrady - Jan-01-13 10:15 PM
  - Thanks - crowellsr - Jan-01-13 10:19 PM
    - Alone. Rope. - Glenn_MacGrady - Jan-01-13 10:38 PM
- paddle elash - Peter-CA - Jan-02-13 1:26 AM
- I wouldn't - pblanc - Jan-02-13 8:53 AM
- Can you roll? - Celia - Jan-02-13 9:18 AM
  - The last thing - rpg51 - Jan-02-13 6:32 PM
    - roll? - crowellsr - Jan-02-13 10:57 PM
      - I think you are on the right track - kayamedic - Jan-02-13 11:09 PM
      - 3-4 feet? - Celia - Jan-03-13 7:35 AM
- A bad idea in general - bnystrom - Jan-03-13 7:13 AM
- Another thought - jimyaker - Jan-03-13 11:39 AM
- I often use a tether - rjd9999 - Jan-03-13 11:56 AM