Now we've moved on to "how the line is in the clip".... Yes, very important! I wish I was at the boat today, I could give you a picture of my clips - set up to be "customer-proof"! Basically, we've started with the standard Pilgrim Clip... throw away the shower curtain ring. We've added a swivel, keyring, and caribiner. With the swivel, clips can't be put on the towline "upside down" or "twisted", this will cause you massive headaches every time! I also add a rubber band around the clip part, about 1/4 of the way on the pads. This tightens the clip, and provides a stop point for the line going in the clip. The caribiner makes it super easy to snap onto the towline with one hand. Not to mention, the caribiners slide down the towline way better than the shower curtain rings...

We've been doing it this way for years, seems to be catching on, we're selling a metric a$$ ton of our clip setups nowadays!