>What do you have to do to the parachute to make it function as a sea >anchor? And are the chutes hard to find; where did you get yours? >Thanks...e > >Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu Purhased the canopy from a military surplus store. Rigged the canopy with 1/8 inch nylon cord risers which are collected to a 1/4 inch dia. load line. The risers are about two times the canopy diameter in length... more or less six feet long. The load line is about 100 feet long. I have a fishing float (found item) as a canopy float. The canopy float is attached to the canopy apex on a 10 foot length of 1/8 inch cord, this cord comes out the bottom of the stuff sack so it both retains the sack in use and allows the sack to help deploy the sea anchor. All lines are tied and then either fixed with shoe-goo or stainless steel hog rings to prevent accidental untying of knots. It all fits into a stuff sack of about 4 inches diameter by 6 inches long. I pack it in like a parachute... and cinch the sack off very tightly with the end loop of the load line protruding slightly. The loop can then be clipped to whatever you want to use the sea anchor on. To deploy the sea anchor just release the stuff sack tie strings and play the whole thing out on the end of the load line. It deploys as the chute is dragged out of the sack. Jim ......................................................... Jim Vermillion Alaskan Kayaks Kayak & Custom Adventures Worldwide www.alaskan.com/kayak Kenai Fjords National Park, Prince William Sound, The Aleutian Islands Thailand, Hawaii Coastal Kayaking Instruction and Guided Tours by Sea Kayak *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 04 1999 - 05:51:06 PDT
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