SmackDaddy,
Naa, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself
I have not read all the stuff about the different drogues/anchors, but it is my experience that the forces are very different, and that the JSD does not drop your speed to 1 knot, but that it keeps a more constant tension, thus ensuring that you ride the waves in such a way that you avoid the breakers, and/or getting pitch poled. I (as crew) has once streamed a JSD and it helped us ride the seas, when we were too scared and tired to handsteer any longer, but to be honest it was not a survival storm, and we would probably have survived without it.