[PUP] Heavy Weather tactics

[Ron Rogers]

The USCG report linked on the front page of the Jordan and Ace Sailmakers 
websites concludes that sea anchors should not be used. Further, the report 
provides the equations that you can use to spec a series drogue.

< http://www.jordanseriesdrogue.com/pdf/droguecoastguardreport.pdf >

It still sounds like allot of thingamaduggies to deploy and recover, but it 
is good to survive.

The loss of the sailboat Churchill is discused in some detail. It seems that 
you can still get destroyed by a huge following sea with a series drogue. If 
I didn't read it right, please correct me.

Sir Francis Chichester took to running under bare poles in a least one 
storm. He improvised a drogue and did well. His windage is less than a 68 
foot Nordhavn which has multiple decks and a really big behind. Windage is 
as important or more important than displacement. That was the conclusion on 
the T&T List vis a vis anchors.

Ron Rogers