I was thinking drogue myself but then the idea is not to cause unnecessary drag and slow passage. So if things pick up do you haul the dingy in and deploy a drogue? May not be practical in real life.
So I'm still thinking about the problem, what to use to slow the dink and could be deployed all the time. Well if you have a cat you would be surfing too and well ahead of the dink.:-) Presently I just haul it on board and lash to the foredeck, if I got rid of the dog I might never inflate it but I'm not doing ocean passages just 40-50nm between anchorages. JohnB Iroquois MKII Drumbeat On 8/25/2010 6:52 PM, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:28:22PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > >> Ahoy Ben, >> >> I do think that the drogue effect of lifting the bow of our dink, the >> weight of the 140lb outboard on the stern, and being in the propwash, is >> what keeps my dingy from overtaking the transom of the big boat. The dink >> has the attitude it would have just before coming up on plane, like going 6 >> knots with only the driver on board. >> >> You might try a drogue, perhaps a couple of lines dragging from your >> dinghy's transom. You also might try putting some of the load on the two V >> rigged backup lines. >> > Thank you, Norm; I appreciate your advice. > > I was thinking along those lines, but hated the idea of towing a drogue > (Ulysses is a very slow sailer already. :) I just might have to, though; > a drogue would act to prevent the sheering and the "stern chasing", > although it'll require even more rigging and unrigging as I get ready to > go to sea, and some way to keep the drogue from tangling. > > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
