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23-05-2014, 07:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: australia
Boat: Catamaran 32ft
Posts: 19
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Parachutes
I've been looking at trying one. Anyone got any advice?
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23-05-2014, 07:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Everywhere (Sea of Cortez right now)
Boat: PSC Orion 27
Posts: 1,377
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Re: Parachutes
You must have a lot of freeboard.
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23-05-2014, 07:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: australia
Boat: Catamaran 32ft
Posts: 19
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As a sail not an anchor. I've got a 32 ft cruising cat
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23-05-2014, 08:58
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Boston
Boat: Hughes 25 - Tulip
Posts: 89
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Re: Parachutes
Once it's up there in the right wind, wow probably be just amazing down wind. But there are likely a host of launching, recovery and control issues for a kite of the size needed. Not to mention the cost of construction.
Interesting, looks like it's being done: KiteShip - Innovation in Tethered Flight
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23-05-2014, 09:00
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Homer, AK is my home port
Boat: Skookum 53'
Posts: 4,042
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Re: Parachutes
I thought the one in "Water World" was cool, I don't know if it is real or even works, but it looked really neat.
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23-05-2014, 14:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: australia
Boat: Catamaran 32ft
Posts: 19
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Why do I need lots of freeboard?
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23-05-2014, 16:07
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 21,569
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Re: Parachutes
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nearly Cruising
Why do I need lots of freeboard?
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So the bloody thing can open before you hit the water, that's why!
Jim
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23-05-2014, 16:12
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Auckland
Boat: Crowther, buccaneer, 33'
Posts: 14
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Re: Parachutes
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Originally Posted by Jim Cate
So the bloody thing can open before you hit the water, that's why!
Jim
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Do you think if he jumped from the top of the mast it would work?
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23-05-2014, 17:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: australia
Boat: Catamaran 32ft
Posts: 19
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I've actually launched one off my boat. With a cat you have a large bow to work from. It's recovery that's interesting. I'm told they'll work to about 45 degrees off square
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23-05-2014, 18:57
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Seattle
Posts: 1,129
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Re: Parachutes
"Never get off of the boat. Never get off of the boat. Never get off of the boat." -- Apocalypse Now
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23-05-2014, 18:58
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cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Seattle
Posts: 1,129
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Re: Parachutes
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Originally Posted by threes_company
Do you think if he jumped from the top of the mast it would work?
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If he has one hell of a mast.
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23-05-2014, 20:36
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: australia
Boat: Catamaran 32ft
Posts: 19
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Call me slow, I only just got that
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24-05-2014, 22:21
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: australia
Boat: Catamaran 32ft
Posts: 19
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Come on people, I'm serious. I can launch it easily but retreaval is interesting. I know I've seen a few photos of people using them so someone has to know a bit about them. Like if they put too much strain on the mast cause my rigger didn't like the idea of it. Please help me
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25-05-2014, 01:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Boat: 45' CC ketch
Posts: 337
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Re: Parachutes
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Originally Posted by sammyo
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Maybe it was being done, but apparently it is no more. The links to a site with actual product are all dead and it is obvious that the site has not been looked after for quite some time. No replies to emails either. Which is a shame.
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25-05-2014, 19:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: australia
Boat: Catamaran 32ft
Posts: 19
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But if you look at parachutes on boats on YouTube there are people using them. What I want to know is what sort of stress this will put on my mast
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