Safety essentials - lifeline

Tedski where did the picture of the shock absorber come from?

Tsuri - not sure im picturing what youre saying right but I’ll try to sort that out

Words are hard.....here's a picture of what I'm imagining!

Thanks Tsuri

Ain’t it the truth about pictures

Reminds me of sketches some surgeons would draw for us about what they did or were going to do. Some of the drawings one of them did were like da vinci’s

Tedski where did the picture of the shock absorber come from?

https://www.cobranet.de/en_US

They only sell ones big enough for tying tree trunks together, heh.

To follow on Tsuri's suggestion and pictures - you could use a constrictor knot around the outside of the rope to keep the shock cord from slipping. It's the knot to keep the wishbone from pulling out of a speargun band.

I'm interest a video of this in action if you ever get the chance.

Cheers,
Brad

Thanks I’ll look at constrictor knots. I have another idea that might fit that into the mix

With the price of meat and seafood what it is I need to tidy up one of my yaks and fish. So a video could be a possibility. It’ll have to coincide with one of my son’s surf days which would also mean I’d have some surf to launch through and maybe he could hold a cam

One thing I noticed when I got the Tarpon 16 (1999) was coming in to a big beach break felt like a dare to see if I could land it without swimming, which on one occasion at Muir resulted in a full endo. Prior to that I always swam through anything 5’+

Being older now I might use better judgment

NowhereMan when I was thinking about getting us a TI it was one of the first things I thought about. In that case might even have two lines one for my son and one for myself

Plan would be to do some surf launches/landings for emergency prep

Not sure anybody does beach launches with those, Bolinas has something close to it where the ramp is and that’s a hard landing if you didn’t get it right. I watched Chet land his AI there and the swell coming in behind him was tall enough I couldnt see him. Had me nervous watching him

I remember somebody on an AI crashed and burned there some years ago

In case you are interested, here is a long video of a bunch of surf launch/landing by some guy on a TI: