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| Today was my day to swim. I was giving it my all to jump through a couple waves to catch Dennis. I put away all caution and went as hard as I could and went over. Got back in the boat and the leash was wrapped around my ankle so I was doing one of those swiveling your foot around trying to unhook myself while sitting beam sea. One hard kick to get untangled and over I went. As I was heading over, I saw my leash snap. So I held on tight to my boat. Dennis and Dean were there to make sure I was OK and after I jumped back in they escorted me back to shore. I've been regularly replacing the velcro part of my leash, but the coiled part was 3'ish years old. I would have thought these things were over engineered! | Today was my day to swim. I was giving it my all to jump through a couple waves to catch Dennis. I put away all caution and went as hard as I could and went over. Got back in the boat and the leash was wrapped around my ankle so I was doing one of those swiveling your foot around trying to unhook myself while sitting beam sea. One hard kick to get untangled and over I went. As I was heading over, I saw my leash snap. So I held on tight to my boat. Dennis and Dean were there to make sure I was OK and after I jumped back in they escorted me back to shore. I've been regularly replacing the velcro part of my leash, but the coiled part was 3'ish years old. I would have thought these things were over engineered! | ||
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| **gsouthstone **May 20 #33817\\ | **gsouthstone **May 20 #33817\\ | ||
| - | Ok, my two cents. From the images, it appears that the extruded plastic coil failed where it was possibly tortured (heated and possibly contorted) to the point that the plastic essentially becomes "brittle". Note the transparency along the length of the coil until the failed end where the diameter has visibly shrunk. Boils down to poor design in a number of ways. You might want to window shop the multitude of homemade waist leash designs that are the fashion amongst us old-timers. Even my Dyeesma shock cord on my homemade waist leash is rated at 500 pd shock load and that is the weakest "link". The foot leashes that I use only on oc's are old school, the coil is coated braided SS cable with no bungee connectors. The first sign of degradation and it gets retired completely. It was good conditions for both a swim and to test your leash.\\ | + | Ok, my two cents. From the images, it appears that the extruded plastic coil failed where it was possibly tortured (heated and possibly contorted) to the point that the plastic essentially becomes "brittle". Note the transparency along the length of the coil until the failed end where the diameter has visibly shrunk. Boils down to poor design in a number of ways. You might want to window shop the multitude of homemade waist leash designs that are the fashion amongst us old-timers. Even my Dyneema shock cord on my homemade waist leash is rated at 500 lb shock load and that is the weakest "link". The foot leashes that I use only on oc's are old school, the coil is coated braided SS cable with no bungee connectors. The first sign of degradation and it gets retired completely. It was good conditions for both a swim and to test your leash.\\ |
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