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From: Phil Sherwood (no email)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 03:32:57 EDT
The plans or specs for the Jordan series drogue, complete with some
technical data from Don Jordan, are downloadable from Sailrite, I believe.
If you can't find them, contact me off list and I'll send them (I have them
in .pdf format). I believe that distributing and using the plans does not
infringe on anyone's copyright or patent -- I think Don Jordan purposely
made his work openly available.
I think one could make his/her own series drogue for perhaps $300-$400
worth of cloth, webbing, and hardware, depending of course on the number of
cones needed for a given boat.
Phil
At 10:47 PM 5/1/2006, you wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Fair winds,
>Len.
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