🔍 Key Concepts

• Towing bridle geometry – how leg length affects the angle at the towing point and over the chocks/fairleads • Load distribution in a bridle – when legs are truly equal and symmetrically led, how is load usually shared? • Effect of short vs. long bridles on angle of pull, chafe, and tendency to lift out of chocks or fairleads

💭 Think About

• If both legs are exactly the same length and led symmetrically, what normally happens to the load on each leg? • What happens to the angle of each leg and the way it rides in the chocks/fairleads if the legs are made very short but still equal? • Which listed problem is most directly caused by the length of the bridle legs, rather than by poor adjustment or asymmetry?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which option is a direct consequence of short but equal-length legs, not of unequal leg length or poor rigging • Focus on how steep lead angle and vertical component of the towline force would affect the legs in the chocks/fairleads • Eliminate any choice that describes a condition that would normally require unequal leg length or misalignment to occur