I see where the video is annotated and described as a drogue deployment.
Watching it carefully, particularly when marking the boat position and drift in relation to the marks on the horizon, one could be forgiven for assuming that they had deployed an anchor that was slipping in the surge....
Even though a mere sibber I always carry one. When suffering a dead engine and deploying an anchor isn't possible they give you extra stability while you work out options.
So being a but a mere novice, I have a question - would you need a different size of drogue for different sizes of RIB/SIB? or is it one size fits all?
I've carried one because many of my seagoing thoughts echo back to an upbringing on liveaboards decades ago. Then our drogues were heavy canvas with a galvanised ring that kept the throat open.
I think large parachute style sea anchors often had trip lines as their drag is massive... but these smallcraft cone shape drogues are quite easy to recover just hauling back in.
I've carried one for years never had to use it in anger.....but anything as cheap lightweight and easy to store and that actually could help from going Beam on in a Big Sea is worth HAVING in the locker in my view.....
Not that I make too much of a habit playing around (purposely) inshore in rough-ish conditions ....anymore than is necessary.
Offshore in open Sea when it is ROUGH on passage is the place to be ....with a bit of depth and space is pretty much ALWAYS preferable!....
and a Drogue (Sea Anchor) will have a much better chance of deploying and working properly/effectively too
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This is relevant to the solent crew too. The solent is a confused & crappy bit of water with waves coming from all directions. Once you get south of the island though, round the needles or past nab tower, you might get big waves, but they have a much longer wavelength and from a uniform direction that that you can set the boat up to ride nicely.
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Originally Posted by Maximus
I've carried one for years never had to use it in anger.....but anything as cheap lightweight and easy to store and that actually could help from going Beam on in a Big Sea is worth HAVING in the locker in my view.....
Not that I make too much of a habit playing around (purposely) inshore in rough-ish conditions ....anymore than is necessary.
Offshore in open Sea when it is ROUGH on passage is the place to be ....with a bit of depth and space is pretty much ALWAYS preferable!....
and a Drogue (Sea Anchor) will have a much better chance of deploying and working properly/effectively too
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