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RE: [world-cruising] Drogues and para-anchors...

From: Dwight Yachuk (no email)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 07:30:57 EDT

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    Hello Len,
     
    I don't have any direct answers to your questions. I have attached my snipfile on drogues and sea anchors. Perhaps it will provide some insight (Perhaps you wrote it ??? :)
     
    dwight

    -----Original Message-----
    From: [mailto:]On Behalf Of Len den Besten
    Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:48 AM
    To:
    Subject: [world-cruising] Drogues and para-anchors...

    For storm-survival purposes and after reading the USCG Report CG-D-20-
    87 we're going to add a series drogue to the inventory. In stead of
    one huge parachute which can be hard to deploy and at times will leave
    you without any braking-effect, we choose the line with many little
    chutes that will yield braking-effect in any circumstance.

    Looking at prices (way over 2,000 euro's for a 120m line with 160
    little 5" chutes made of cloth) and convinced this isn't rocket
    science, we are thinking about building our own. The moderate forces
    on one single cone permit a DIY project in my view. My goal is a 120
    meters of 18 mm 3-braid, nylon line with 150 cones spliced into it.

    Any experience here with a DIY series drogue? I am interested in the
    exact cone-pattern, type of cloth and thread you used and also the way
    you spliced each cone into the line.

    Fair winds,
    Len.

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