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[zoidberg]

John Harries' subscription website 'AAC' holds a great deal about the more recent development of Jordan Series Drogues.

There's a great deal more in the comments columns appended to each chapter. And there's more again in other forum sites such as Sailing Anarchy and Cruisers Forum. Even the Ocean Cruising Club devotes some pages.... A very good place to start is with Don Jordan's own report and writings.

There are many who are very sincere in their strong assertions. Often, they're just sincerely wrong. As with much else found on the internet, one has to shift some overburden to get to the nuggets.

 

[pandos]

John Harries' subscription website 'AAC' holds a great deal about the more recent development of Jordan Series Drogues.

There's a great deal more in the comments columns appended to each chapter. And there's more again in other forum sites such as Sailing Anarchy and Cruisers Forum. Even the Ocean Cruising Club devotes some pages.... A very good place to start is with Don Jordan's own report and writings.

There are many who are very sincere in their strong assertions. Often, they're just sincerely wrong. As with much else found on the internet, one has to shift some overburden to get to the nuggets.

Given your research on here on sailing Anarchy and on other sites. Have you arrived at a decision on how you will proceed?.

For the record I like your titanium plates but they strike me as being too clever and I would be uncomfortably with them (perhaps irrationally so)


I am going for long straps near the deck level, bolted through into backing plates in the normal fashion with some localised thickening of the hull , with the extent to be decided after the holes have been drilled and the actual make up of the hull at those positions is known.

I hope my plates can look a little less ugly than those with the 13 bolt heads.

According to the boat yard My boat weighs 10 tonnes slightly loaded...

 

[zoidberg]

I like your titanium plates but they strike me as being too clever

I well understand, 'pandos'. The motivation comes from the fact I have them, and 'what else could I use them for'..... They're hugely expensive 'bits of bling' - and I'll tell you the story sometime, over a jar of Murphys, when next I get to Crosshaven/Baltimore.

There's also the matter of the moulded-in ( er, 'out' ) false rubbing strake, shown in my OP photograph #8, which rather gets in the way of an external s/s strap. I also have these, but they don't quite fit....

'How to proceed?' Both the University of Bath and of Bristol have sound Engineering Departments. I'll go ask there.... some sense might emerge. I'll also track down a firm near Southampton with a reputation for mending broken boats, and take one or two of their guys for a liquid lunch. Some sense might emerge from that, too.

 

[pandos]

I look forward to a pint or two in either venue...

They are serious looking bling and a I see the attraction,