yeah...but they're supposed to keep you from getting washed off in the first place! We hardly used our chicken lines mostly because we had to place our weight so far back (I was stradling the rear beam) when the chop got really heavy that I couldn't get enough angle on it. Traditionally, I'm used to using the chicken line to keep us from getting thrown forward because getting thrown backwards is usually a result of a mistake onboard . Some improvements to my system might help some.

Come to think of it though, they did help give me something to grab after righting the boat post-pitchpole coming out of Angelfish creek.