13 july: drogue

I just bought a Burke drogue. A multifunctional apparatus but one that i may never use. Functions include:- drogue to allow the boat when running, can be towed for directional durability, when crossing bars to allow and steady the boat through surf, emergency steering, sea anchor to take storms bow on, to allow drift and to steady roll at anchor. 
The Seabrake device has been developed in the wake of Bass Strait storms and the devastation of the Sydney to Hobart fleet some years ago. It satisfies Australian Yachting Federation for storm sailing and emergency steering. I relearned today that "Old Man Sailing" has one of these aboard and is happy with it's use during circumnavigation. 
I will use it of course, if only to familiarise myself with it at sea. 

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