Thread: deploying a drogue - HELP

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Originally Posted by Cap'n Fishy

Superb!

Col

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Originally Posted by don1971

I have made a couple of these for shortening the drogue ropes, just the same thing as guy ropes on a tent. These are made from some teak so should hopefully last a while. The caribener attaches to the boat as normal and the adjuster moves up or down as required.
Have tried to attach a picture.


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Hi Don I,ve made myself a pair of these how much adjustment do I want to have?
Thanks Al

Originally Posted by don1971

I have made a couple of these for shortening the drogue ropes, just the same thing as guy ropes on a tent. These are made from some teak so should hopefully last a while. The caribener attaches to the boat as normal and the adjuster moves up or down as required.
Have tried to attach a picture.


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Any chance you could give us a top(or bottom) view of the holes instead of the side on view..

Jim

Originally Posted by 3lbgrayling

Any chance you could give us a top(or bottom) view of the holes instead of the side on view..

Jim

If you can’t work out where the holes are from that picture then the job might be getting too advanced for your abilities.

Thank you for your reply.

Jim

I was only pulling your leg, I will sketch up the dimensions later and post a picture, although I think anything made around that sort of idea would work.

Ok I'll sort it out myself then.

The wood is 18x18mm. It probably started life as 3/4” sq, but was sanded. The holes I drilled through were 1/4”, but this is to suit the paracord of the wychwood drogue which is about 6mm.
I imagine you could make the same thing very easily from aluminium flat bar, as long as the holes were well smoothed out. Once the ropes are under tension it locks on quite tightly.



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Originally Posted by speytime

Hi Don I,ve made myself a pair of these how much adjustment do I want to have?
Thanks Al

I have set mine up now so the standard drogue ropes are effectively halved- so each rope is now as short as it can be.
I fix the adjusters to the boat, and if I want to make a change I will lengthen on rope slightly.
I have concluded that the standard length of the ropes is a bit unessesarily long.