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www.seaanchor.com
PARA-TECH
The home page of PARA-TECH ENGINEERING COMPANY. Don Whilldin, Para-Tech's
founder and CEO, has been with the parachute industry most of his life and can
tell you some hair-raising stories about some of his parachute jumps -- more
than 1000 to date. About 25 years ago he began to put his parachute
manufacturing know-how to maritime use by making first-class sea anchors and
drogues. Check out the useful OFFSHORE CHECKLIST on his site.
www.cruisinghome.com
CRUISING HOME UK
Cruising Home's site in good old England. Mike Seal, proprietor, is
knowledgeable with respect to various aspects of offshore safety and was
instrumental in nailing down some of the heavy weather files that you will find
in the 4th edition of the Drag Device Data Base. He'll be glad to answer any
question you English sailors may have about sea anchors and drogues. Say hello
to Mike for us.
http://www.tv-enterprise.com
T.V. ENTERPRISE YACHT EQUIPMENT & SERVICE
Tony Vonk’s site in the seafaring Netherlands. Tony knows sea anchors and
drogues and will be glad to answer any question you Dutch sailors may have
about them. Be sure to say “hallo” to Tony for us.
http://www.safetyatsea.co.nz/
SAFETY AT SEA, AUSTRALASIA
Safety At Sea's site in Auckland, New Zealand. Lloyd Klee, proprietor, has read
the Drag Device Data Base cover to cover, to say nothing of Heavy
Weather Sailing and every other book dealing with storms tactics. He is
knowledgeable in various aspects of offshore safety and will be glad to answer
any questions that you sailors Down Under may have about sea anchors and
drogues. Say hello to Lloyd for us – better yet, say “good on you mate!”
http://www.hathaways.com/galerider
GALERIDER DROGUE
Skip Raymond of Hathaway Reiser and Raymond was instrumental in nailing down a
number of files that you will find in the DDDB. He is knowledgeable with
respect to various aspects of offshore safety, especially the use of
speed-limiting drogues. Check out the info and articles he provides in this
site. P.S., there are numerous Galerider files in the 4th edition of the DDDB,
including one that saw "combat use" in the Queen's Birthday Storm.
www.acesails.com
JORDAN SERIES DROGUE
Ace Sailmakers’ website contains all the information you will need to
equip your boat with a Jordan series drogue. Ace's Dave Pelissier was
instrumental in nailing down some of the series drogue files in the DDDB and
can answer most of your questions about this unique drogue concept. And if Dave
can’t answer your questions you can post them to Donald Jordan directly – just click
on “Designer’s Notes” and scroll down to the bottom where you will find Jordan’s
email.
http://www.naval.com/heavy-seas/
MOTHER OF ALL WAVES
Brace yourself before clicking on this page, sponsored by Naval
Electronics, Inc. These photos
remind one of the words of Captain Albert Henry Caldwell written on board the
sailing ship Dorchester in an Atlantic storm in 1844: “The ocean
presented one of the most grand and awful spectacles that the eye of man ever
beheld…. At one moment we were walled in between two immense heaps of water
which seemed ready to engulf us; at the next we were upborne to the very summit
of one of those same watery mountains and looking down into the valleys on
either side.”
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