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Smack, the drawing is basicly correct. Also I can't see an anchor bouy on a light line being able to introduce slack into a drouge that under storm conditions is under the load of (in my case) a 46' steel hulled cutter doing 6/7kt being propelled by both wind and sea state congruent with such conditions. Heck, I'm not sure that a chanel marker could even acomplish that, though it may snap the line.

You had also mentioned something about a "Gale rider" earlier. The galerider is a pretty sweet little weapon for active downwind sailing when you start to get into a situation where broaching begins to become a concern. It won't slow you down as much as a jsd, but will provide sufficient resistance to broaching, and relieve the helmsman from some of the more heavy steering involved in that kind of sailing, and because of it's ability to let you move faster downwind it relieves pressure on your rig b/c of the decrease in aparent wind.