Ben,
Thanks for the report from Chesapeake City, which we have enjoyed a couple
of times on trips through there... Glad you came through so well and hope
for the best for all others on the list.
Ed
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Ben Okopnik b...@okopnik.com wrote:
Hi, Steve -
On Tue, Oct
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 01:57:05PM -0400, Philip wrote:
The JSD is not a sea anchor. It is a drogue. Unlike a sea anchor (para
anchor?) It yields to the seas instead of holding fast. This reduces the
strain
on fittings and allows the boat to become part of the wave action, not in
Hey, Ben, how did you weather the storm? Your normal anchorage or did you
move the boat to someplace else.
The phones are down in Long Island (not to mention power, trees, and general
devastation) so I haven't a clue whether or not I still have a boat. I saw
something late last night on one
Hi, Steve -
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:45:10PM -0400, SteveW wrote:
Hey, Ben, how did you weather the storm? Your normal anchorage or did you
move the boat to someplace else.
I was very, very lucky: I've already started my cruise south, and was
sitting in Chesapeake City (still there right
Ben list,
Our experience in the use of the Jordan Series Drogue at sea came between
the Azores and Falmouth England and showed its operation to be similar to
the old time practice of trailing warps and running. We slowed from 7.6
knots on bare poles to .45 knots during the next 26 hours in 20
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:08:23AM +0300, Ed Kelly wrote:
Jordan's work discovered many boats could more easily survive a hurricane if
they were anchored with a bridle in a STERN TO position in a hurricane.═
A note from personal experience: fairly early in my cruising career, I
deployed a sea
