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Good information on the JSD website? Oh, you mean like this:

"Conventional storm survival lore and literature is no longer necessary or pertinent. Whenever the situation deteriorates to the point where further progress is no longer possible or even when it becomes unpleasant, the logical choice is to ride to the drogue until conditions improve. This also applies in the event of crew fatigue, illness, or the need for a stable platform to permit rigging repair.

Although the drogue was developed using sophisticated engineering tools and procedures, the device itself is very low tech. There are no special materials, no moving parts or controls, no special hydrodynamic shapes. The only material subjected to high loads is the double braided nylon rope. It is poignant to realize that every sailing vessel which went to sea from the time of the Romans had on board all the materials and skills needed to build a drogue which would have been capable of bringing the ship safely through a survival storm. They had strong hawsers used for anchoring, spare sail cloth for sail repair, and a sailmaker with the skill to fabricate the cones.

With the help of the drogue; St Paul on his biblical voyage across the Great Sea could have safely made passage to Rome instead of being shipwrecked in the wilderness, and the spread of Christianity would have taken a different course. The settlement of the American continents might have been advanced by 400 years if the Vikings had the drogue. Their vessels, although ideal for fast coastwise voyaging, were hopelessly unsafe on the open sea under storm conditions. Since they were undecked, they could not lie ahull without swamping, and if they tried to run off they would surf and plunge into the next wave. The Viking ships had no structural bulkheads and would have split open like a pea pod on impact with the green water in the preceding trough.

With the help of the drogue, the Vikings might have been able to support their colonies in the New World.

So much for conjecture!"

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I love that last part. Sounds like the Gibraltarian you like so much.

Look, Dog I'm not "trolling". You really need to harden up and stop crying troll every time someone presents an alternative view.

I've never said the JSD is a "bad" device. But I do think saying stuff like it would have helped the esteemed Viking, St. Paul, spread Christianity to America is a little rich.

It's marketing dude. Marketing. Look at all the wonderfully positive things the para-anchor site says about it's product. Are you agreeing with JSD that we can now throw out all other "conventional wisdom" regarding storm tactics and use ONLY this device...always...no questions?

Can you provide a link to the CG study you cite? That would be helpful. If you recall, the one on the JSD site talks about the F/V "Fair Wind" lying stern-to and getting pitch poled on page 2 (sounds like serious damage to me). But, of course, that report was testing drogues and stern-to orientation - so it had an obvious slant.