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never survives contact with the enemy.” Like all  breeze, eventually shredding itself to pieces after
                  arts, rigging is an attempt to finesse coherence out  beating your topsides to death? Simply cinching the
                  of ornery chaos, and the strangest things can save  tie-down lines supertight is usually not enough; the
                  the day. Fill that drawer; you’ll find what you need  rope stretches over time, and in any event can over-
                  when you open it.                            strain the tarp grommets.
                                                                  But if you interject strips of inner tube between
                                                               the tie-downs and the plank they belay to, you’ll
                                TIE-DOWNS                      have a resilient configuration that can compensate
                                                               for rope stretch and wind, without creating excess
                  Unless you want things to flap, flutter, shred, hum,  tension.
                  fall, get lost, or sunburned, you’ll need to learn all
                  about tie-downs.                             Wind and Tie-down Straps
                                                               Anytime a trailer tie-down strap is over space—as
                  Tarp Tie-down                                between the gunwales of an open boat—it will flut-
                  If you haul your boat for the winter, it is prudent  ter and hum in the wind, greatly shortening strap
                  to drape a tarp over it to keep out the elements.  life. To lessen this, give the strap a half twist where
                  But how do you keep the tarp from flapping in the  it crosses open space.


                  Figure 12-1. A resilient tarp tie-down.



















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