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From: Courtney Thomas (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 13:34:55 EDT
Barry,
What kind of sea-anchor and drogue do you use ?
How'd you size it ?
Thank you,
Courtney
Barry Brazier wrote:
> The problem with lying ahull is you get rolled over is big seas. It is better to use the sea anchor or run down wind.
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> barry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rosalie B.
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> Subject: Re: [world-cruising] Sea anchors
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> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:22:51 -0700, you wrote:
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> >Fin keel boats are vulnerable to rolling over when laying ahull. You can't
> >take big breaking waves on your beam. Keep steering your boat. I have
> >those orange anchor stablizer cones rigged on lines with mushroom anchors
> >(they really work) and I could always drag them if I really needed to slow
> >down. They are also cheap. Cutting them away would be no great loss.
>
> I have heard (on a video on sailing which had some pretty big names
> but I no longer remember which ones) that fin keel boats have great
> difficulty heaving to properly.
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> We have practiced heaving to (we have a modified full keel) and it
> works very nicely although we've only done it in moderate winds and
> seas as we try not to be out in really bad weather.
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> I personally would not like to lie ahull from the sound of it.
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> We do have a sea anchor but have not practiced with it. After reading
> Pardee and Earl H. and the book on sea anchors, and another one (Heavy
> Weather Sailing?) which talks about pitchpoling etc., we decided on
> the sea anchor rather than a drogue. I'd like to get a storm trysail,
> but mostly I'd like to stay out of situations where I'm likely to need
> one.
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> grandma Rosalie
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