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Quite interesting reading and perspective. 2 sq meter storm jib on a 36’ boat. Wow!
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GGR-dismastings-Report.pdf#page=2
Ropes on their own are not as effective as ropes in a bight. Drogues, although the evidence is that they are effective, have proved unpopular, as sailors have to haul them back in to recover them. Tripping lines, that would allow the drogues to be hauled in from their outer end so the drag is greatly reduced, often become entangled with the hawsers, making recovery difficult.
Whichever method is used to restrain the boat, the hawsers must be strong enough to take a snatch loading.
Those who had storm jibs tended to sheet them in tight amidships so that when trying to sail directly downwind, if the boat slewed round the wind pressure on the sail would tend to push the head back down wind. Storm jibs tended to be no more than 2 square metres in size for this length of boat.
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GGR-dismastings-Report.pdf#page=2