Heavy Weather Tactics Using Sea Anchors & Drogues

1979 Fastnet Race aboard airman's parachute anchor or drogue anchor system anchors and drogues attached Beaufort Beaufort scale boat speed boat's braided nylon breaking wave bridle broach canopy capsize chafe cockpit cone Courtesy crest crew cruiser cruising deck deployed deployment downwind drag coefficients drag devices drift speed feet Figure float Force gale Galerider gear heavy weather hull inches knots lying a-hull monohull multihull nylon nylon rode ocean orbital Para-Anchor Para-Tech Engineering parachute sea anchor percent pitchpole polyester powerboat raft retrieval riding sail rigged rode length rogue wave rope rudder running safety Safety Harbor sailboat sailors sea anchor rode Seabrake SeaClaw seamanship series drogue shape Shewmon shroud lines skipper stability staysail steering stern storm oil strength surface survival swivel tests tether Tilikum towing transom trimaran trip line uninflated vessel Voss wave height wave length wind drag wind loads wind speed Yacht