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What did you use for a tail weight? A JSD made with fewer drogues will behave differently for complex reasons (both the boat speed and...

Stretch is undesirable in a drogue so dyneema being lighter, thinner, non-stretch, and easy to thread the drogue tapes and to splice...

A knot was the downfall of Suzy Goodall's series drogue, leading to the loss of her Rustler in the Southern Ocean. I have no knots in my...

Use dyneema / spectra to make drogue fit in a smaller space for storage......

@ zoidberg This is a very substantial answer, thank you. And you touch on many subjects. I found that in all parts of life one learns...

IMHO you're going about this the right way.... Asking questions, researching answers, 'diving down the rabbit holes'. There are no...

It does happen. Perhaps you haven't been paying attention.... You might start with this: Fastnet Race Inquiry

This is one of those subjects where one's initial assumptions play a considerable part, as does vulnerability to 'confirmation bias'...

Skip Novak has huge experience of severe conditions, and his expertise is well worth weighing. He operates heavy displacement expedition...

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It is reported in news that wide-area GPS jamming/spoofing is being done over large areas of Israel, with speculation that an...

“only the paranoid survive”……GPS is amazing but it’s not a given. If you don’t know whatever water’s you’re lucky enough to find...

GPS is a fabulous advance for walking, cycling, sailing. But I always have a paper chart, albeit not detailed, a paper pilot guide for...

Is therea point to this 'doubling-up', or am I missing something?

If you have a friendly rigger nearby (and depending on you access arrangements) a long length of old rigging wire can be used as as good...