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

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"just me" wrote:

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

We have a parachute type sea anchor, but have never been in a place
where we could try it out without the fear that it would be run over
by another boat.


grandma Rosalie

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I have one (a Para-tech sea anchor) on each of my powerboats and
wouldn't go out on Lake Superior without one. Sailboats can do things
when things go wrong that powerboats cannot. Mine both assume a broach
position as soon as the power shuts off.

Capt. Jeff

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"Tamaroak" wrote in message
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I have one (a Para-tech sea anchor) on each of my powerboats and wouldn't
go out on Lake Superior without one. Sailboats can do things when things go
wrong that powerboats cannot. Mine both assume a broach position as soon as
the power shuts off.

Capt. Jeff

Watched "The Perfect Storm" a couple weeks ago and kept thinking how they'd
be dead in a minute if the engine quit. Certainly cured me of any desire to
be out in serious weather in a power boat, at least a single engine unit.
Seems like drogues and sea anchors are even more important on power boats.
Don't read those magazines so I wonder what they say?

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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:15:58 GMT, "Gordon Wedman"
wrote:

Watched "The Perfect Storm" a couple weeks ago and kept thinking how they'd
be dead in a minute if the engine quit. Certainly cured me of any desire to
be out in serious weather in a power boat, at least a single engine unit.
Seems like drogues and sea anchors are even more important on power boats.
Don't read those magazines so I wonder what they say?

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What you say is true in my opinion but you are less likely to be
"caught out" in a power boat unless you have a true long range cruiser
like a Nordhaven, Willard or similar.

Power boats have the advantage of speed which gets you back into port
quicker if need be, and they also have a finite range which usually
limits time at sea to a more predictable weather window.

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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:35:36 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:15:58 GMT, "Gordon Wedman"
wrote:

Watched "The Perfect Storm" a couple weeks ago and kept thinking how they'd
be dead in a minute if the engine quit. Certainly cured me of any desire to
be out in serious weather in a power boat, at least a single engine unit.
Seems like drogues and sea anchors are even more important on power boats.
Don't read those magazines so I wonder what they say?

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What you say is true in my opinion but you are less likely to be
"caught out" in a power boat unless you have a true long range cruiser
like a Nordhaven, Willard or similar.

Power boats have the advantage of speed which gets you back into port
quicker if need be, and they also have a finite range which usually
limits time at sea to a more predictable weather window.


With a power boat you sure have the speed to get home quickly. But
suppose you have engine failure and don´t want to drift ashore. And
water is too deep to anchor.

Mike







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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0200, Mike the Spamkiller
wrote:

With a power boat you sure have the speed to get home quickly. But
suppose you have engine failure and don´t want to drift ashore. And
water is too deep to anchor.

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That's a quandry for sure, but except for the most hostile coast lines
there is usually a zone of water shallow enough that your anchor can
grab. If not, you assume the nuclear attack position and kiss it
goodbye.

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In article ,
Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:17:56 +0200, Mike the Spamkiller
wrote:

With a power boat you sure have the speed to get home quickly. But
suppose you have engine failure and don´t want to drift ashore. And
water is too deep to anchor.

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That's a quandry for sure, but except for the most hostile coast lines
there is usually a zone of water shallow enough that your anchor can
grab. If not, you assume the nuclear attack position and kiss it
goodbye.

Like most of the Pacific Coast....




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On 12 Dec 2005 17:30:33 -0800, lid (Jonathan Ganz)
wrote:

Like most of the Pacific Coast....

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No continental shelf at all? Never realized that, guess I'll have to
cruise the west coast one of these days. I'm spoiled however by
having a decent inlet or harbor every 20 to 50 miles, sometimes less.

I met a couple last summer who had cruised south from the Pacific NW
to the Panama Canal in a Nordhavn trawler. They only stopped a couple
of times.

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In article ,
Wayne.B wrote:
On 12 Dec 2005 17:30:33 -0800, lid (Jonathan Ganz)
wrote:

Like most of the Pacific Coast....

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No continental shelf at all? Never realized that, guess I'll have to
cruise the west coast one of these days. I'm spoiled however by
having a decent inlet or harbor every 20 to 50 miles, sometimes less.

I met a couple last summer who had cruised south from the Pacific NW
to the Panama Canal in a Nordhavn trawler. They only stopped a couple
of times.

Plenty of shelf, plenty of wave action, thick fog, onshore wind, many
rocks.... lots of wrecks of boats that headed in when they should have
headed out. :-)




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