Craig wrote: Rob's idea of using a drogue seems to me to be a lot more practical. I wonder if he's ever experimented with it as a training exercise. I think I'd also try a large-diameter (3/4" or so) length of line (poly might be best as it floats) as a drag device. If you can secure the line with one end port and the other starboard you would have a U for maximum drag and it would be a *lot* easier to undeploy (just let one end loose). >>>>>>> I have but only in practice and they are terribly slow in surf. The trip line to release the drogue between sets speeds it up a bit. They encompass risk as on their useage there is now rope in the water in surf of some state. Not fun. But what are you going to do if someone pops a shoulder and there are no recreational or commercial boats about? I've talked a sea sick pal, who was in the absolute miserableness that condition offers, through 2 lines of 5 foot surf. He had been towed about an hour, face down on his rafted partner's deck. There was little rip to the surf and my reasoning was if he swam, we could let the boat go in and he could grab my stern and become a drogue for me. The other option was to use the surf drogue and risk the fingers and general health of his raft partner. It's easy to misjudge the timing of sets when other things are to be worried about. Cheers, Rob G *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:33:51 PDT