A tug tows a small boat with a rope inclined upward at 30 degrees to the horizontal. The tension in the string is 2000N.What is the forces tending to raise the boat out of water.

Answer 1

what is 2000*cos30?

Answer 2

I think I like sin30

Just for future reference, consider the extreme cases.
0° means no upward pull at all. sin0 = 0
90° means a pull straight up. sin90 = 1, the full amount pulls up