In article , Bart Senior .@. wrote:
Similar to you. I used a drogue once. We simulated it's
effect by sailing closer to a beam reach instead of downwind.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote

just me wrote:

How many here, have one or both of these and have used them?

Practiced using a drogue, never in conditions that would truly warrant
it. Never used nor practiced using a para.

We practiced in the bay. It was blowing 30 kts, so we did get some
effect, and we had some following chop about 4 foot I recall. The
hassle was getting it back in.

I guess one could use just about anything... how about a 55 gal drum?
:-)

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