Jordan Series Drogue

[tcm]

Bit of an odd choiice tho innit? The drogue is a sorta preventative measure, the liferaft a bit later when it’s all gone a bit more wrong.

With not much engine power it is ok to tootle upwind in stormy stuff. I had a drpgue but when it came to it, meh, i didn’t fancy putting loads of stuff over the side and hoping it wouldn’t wrap round the props. So when it got a bit f8-9 one morning i just motored at it, and in an hour or so the wind dropped and settled, all fine.

Respect to the OP, by the way. Difficult to decide what to get ad not get. I am doing this circumnav and same sort of hum questions.

The stage shortly afterthe liferaft is the AIS transponder - get one of those and anyone with AIS can find you.

Finally, i am enjoying the image of webcraft and mrs webcraft having a “debate" about boat gear to take along, or not. I spect mrs w would vote to chuck most of it over the side cos the boat will go faster...

 

[prv]

The stage shortly afterthe liferaft is the AIS transponder - get one of those and anyone with AIS can find you.

The stage shortly after the liferaft is the PLB or EPIRB - get one of those and the RNLI (or anyone else who is nearer after the Coastguard announce a Mayday Relay on VHF) will be sent directly to you.

AIS beacons are good for people falling off boats, but there are a number of reasons why they're not ideal for raising the alarm if the whole boat is in distress.

Pete

 

[PhillM]

Slight drift and I might have this wrong, but I was thinking the liferaft is more for use in collision or fire where you want to leave the boat quickly rather than in a storm. I dont see how it could be safer in a rubber dinghy than the boat – unless of course the boat has broken up or sunk!

Agree with EPIRB. I chose one over parachute flares thinking that they are more reliable and safer to carry. We do have hand held flares and VHF DSC so felt fairly covered for the sort of coastal sailing I plan.

 

[Keen_Ed]

Always step up into a liferaft.

Liferaft without PLB/EPIRB is silly.

 

[lw395]

Always step up into a liferaft.

Liferaft without PLB/EPIRB is silly.

If the yacht sank, I wouldn't feel that a liferaft without an epirb was at all silly.
Given that there is a hand held GPS and a VHF in my oilskin pocket at this moment.

 

[mikemacdonald]

I have a Jordan drogue, and like most of them it is yet to come out of the bag.
But I was in a bit of a blow recently and I'd just read Lynn and Larry Pardey's 'Storm Tactics'. They are great advocates of heaving-to, which I did, with great and comfortable success.
I don't want to drift this thread, but if anyone wants to discuss heaving-to experiences, then let's start another thread.

Good idea, can we include catamaran tactics?

 

[Moodyjim]

Smallish drogue may be useful to steer with if you lose the rudder.

 

[fishermantwo]

Smallish drogue may be useful to steer with if you lose the rudder.

We used to call them buckets!

 

[phanakapan]

We have both a life raft and a Jordan Series drogue- but we are attempting to circumnavigate. Wouldn't bother with the Jordy for x channel.

Actually got round to fixing a bit of chain to the Jordy and having it ready to deploy on the aft deck for our last passage- 'just in case'. It worked- we mostly motored in flat calm....

However, other boats in roughly our area had very nasty weather last week http://calypsosjournal.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/a-night-from-hell.html

so maybe we weren't so daft.

 

[SHUG]

My thinking was that that a single drouge on a 13m yacht would have a massive load on the line which would make it difficult to fix securely and impossible to retrieve. The answer is to have two smaller drouges which could be deployed progressively as the conditions worsen.
Never got past using one but that was successful in preventing surfing and broaching in 35knts downwind.