when choosing heavy weather tackle the trending application among cruising folk is the Jordan Series Drogue (JSD);long warp laced with cone-shaped and a chain weight. The sales banter claims, "no vessel with a J.S.D. has ever been lost". That's a loud boast, almost a guarantee; carry one and you will not lose your vessel. Wouldn't we all love a guarantee that we'll all return from sea intact? Well ultimately it's a rubbish claim because a) it may have happened but no-eventualities has survived to report it, or b) it just hasn't happened yet.
anyway, the hype did get to me, so I wrote ACE Sails for a quote: 100 cones will cost $US700 plus $US110 postage. add that, and 200' of 16mm double braid = app. $1500 Australian.Well. my Folkboat is,only worth a little more than that, so a JSD won't becoming aboard Boho' ... unless I can salvage one from a stranded yacht.
Fortunately, there are other options locally: $250 + warp for the Burke Seabrake.It also is well endorsed by a largely unheralded Aussie Jon Sanders (singlehanded record holder for double and triple non-stop circ' s, the last the hard way, currently on his thirteenth circ., now in his senior years), and I believe the Pardys made positive mention of it in their book on heavy weather sailing. So the Seabrake will be on my shopping list.
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