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Anyone had experience with these? www.burkemarine.com.au/pages/seabrake
I came back over the bar at the narrows at Dunalley after a return trip from the lower east coast of Tas a couple of weeks back. There was very little swell left by then so there was no issue at all. I do tend to use that transit through the canal when there's swell running and I'm off chasing surf. So I wondered about having an easily deployed and recoverable drogue on board if I ever wanted to enter there with any serious swell. I note that they can be repurposed as a flopper stopper too which would be handy in some anchorages (I'm thinking of you Schouten Island).
Have used one as a flopped stopper, and it worked very well, with a very noticeable improvement once you adjust it to get it working correctly, well worth the time to set it up, which took me about ten minutes.
Hi Dralyagmas, I couldn't see anything detailed on the Burke website page: www.burkemarine.com.au/pages/seabrake
There is a very basic illustration of it on the end of a boom out to the side, looks like it's set deep too.
Have you used your Seabrake at all? as a drogue that is.
I have a Seabrake but haven't used it in anger either as a drogue or a flopper stopper. For the latter I will use a bit of chain to weigh it down (ie beyond/below the apex of the cone) and the spinnaker pole to hold it out, using the pole uphaul, downhaul and a spare rope to steady the pole. I'm sure it would work best with one on either side, but even one should improve things markedly.
