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[email protected] dougking888@yahoo.com is offline
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Default Rolling remedies

Wayne.B wrote:
Changing course is the easy, low cost solution.


Most effective, too

...* If you want
something better than that, you might want to consider flying
paravanes from twin whisker poles. * It takes quite a bit of rigging
and practice to get them set them up properly and deployed safely.


They can be a handful... there's a very good Navy manual on rigging &
handling paravanes, intended for minesweeps though.

I wonder if a single paravane deployed from a higher lever arm (like a
sailboat mast) could be effective at reducing heeling & rolling

Fresh Breezes- Doug King