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It sounds as though the two people are standing in front of the boat on opposite sides of it, so that they both make an angle of 30.0° with the axis of the boat, as in the attached free body diagram (ignoring the force of buoyancy and the weight of the boat).
By Newton's second law, the net vertical force is
∑ <em>F</em> = <em>P</em>₁ sin(60.0°) + <em>P</em>₂ sin(120.0°) - <em>R</em> = 0
where upward is positive and downward is negative, and the right side is 0 because the boat moves with constant velocity and thus zero acceleration.
We're told that <em>P</em>₁ = <em>P</em>₂ = 600 N, and we know sin(60°) = sin(120°), so the above reduces to
<em>R</em> = 2 <em>P</em> sin(60.0°) = 2 (600 N) sin(60.0°) ≈ 1040 N
