In ths video I show you how we made our Jordan Series Drogue (drogue sea anchor) using instructions from Sailrite with modifications and improvements. We wer...

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so as you guys know we're playing a

serious offshore voyage we're a little

worried about some of the weather we

might encounter and as a precaution we

decided that we wanted to investigate

sea anchors our best option in my

opinion is the Jordan series drogue

they're very good for stabilizing your

boat and riding out some serious serious

storms in an extreme case when a drogue

or a sea anchor might be necessary how

this works is the drogue is connected to

your Stern and you want as much line as

possible to be out off the stern with

these little mini drugs cones all along

the thing and the idea is you're not

just being held by one particular wave

or trough when you have a very long long

rope with lots of drogue cones your rope

is probably going to be resting within

several waves and several drops so if

you're at a position where you might be

falling off of a wave or pitch pulling

forward off of a very tall wave you're

actually going to be held by not only

the wave you're on but the wave behind

that wave and the wave possibly behind

that wave which will be farther back and

when your boat is about to go forward

it'll be stopped by the rope farther

down the line you're not just dependent

on the wave that you're on or maybe the

trough behind the way that you're on

holding you from falling off that wave

it's only meant to be used when you're

bare poles and you're literally just

trying to ride out a storm and

especially only if you're out in open

water and nowhere near sure because

you're in trouble this thing is

apparently really really hard to

protract hopefully we don't ever have to

use this drogue but if we ever get

caught out and it comes time to deploy

it we'll be glad that we have it they're

quite expensive so we decided that we

would go the DIY route with our series

drogue I chose nylon from my cone

material which I purchased on Amazon the

first thing I did to start building my

series drobe was download the

instructions from sailrite

then you find the page where there's a

diagram that explains how to do the

cones what you want to do is get this

printed off or photocopied to the right

size and to check to make sure that your

scale is accurate the measurements are

right here so just take a ruler and make

sure that what the ruler says is what it

says here the next thing I did was I

transferred this onto a cardboard

template that I can trace on to my bags

make sure that you leave enough room at

the top and the bottom of your cones to

fold the material over in so an overlap

at the top on the bottom the sailrite

instructions won't tell you to do that

but it just to me it's a no-brainer and

then what I'm doing is I take my

template and I measured out a pattern to

make sure I could fit as many cones as I

could on one bag so I'm using a white

pencil crayon after I drew the pattern

on all the material I took regular

scissors and just cut out every single

shape like this

yeah thanks forever so here's my stack

of nylon all done I cut out every single

one of these and we're ready to go with

the sewing it's important to sew the

edge and make a little flap on each of

these guys because if I don't when the

water is running past it in use and

there's a lot of friction it's gonna

cause that edge to fray that that edge

phrase you might only get a couple uses

out of your drogue and then

here's one that I've already done and I

folded the edge over here to make a seam

with a double folded it so that there's

no actual edge joint and then I sewed

this with a sewing machine on both of

these sides this is going to fold over

like this and then be sewn again so when

I'm done there won't be any exposed

edges that could throw the next step

after that is to draw the lines on each

cone where you want the straps to go you

need three straps per cone to measure

the strap to fit the cone you can double

it up like this so it's basically fold

in half you find the middle by the

halfway point you line that up to the

top of the cone like this along the

marks that you've made and in doing so

you'll know that you have 15 inches of

strap above the cone and roughly ten

inches or so below the cone for the

lower attachment point and it's

important to make sure that the strap is

on the outside of your seam so if you

did a seam like me make sure the seam is

on the inside okay so now I'm going to

sew and strap to the cone so with it

lined up I lined up and put it on line

sewing machine by the way that banging

is just the Zeus in the background

playing with a bone or something okay

and you want to make sure that you're

set to do a zig-zag stitch with fairly

tight stitching so that you get a lot of

stitches on almost like embroidery

because it's really important to keep

this cone in this nylon strap together

tightly it's going to be taking a fair

bit of force

what you want to do is make sure that

you stitch it on both sides once you

have all three straps stitched in place

you're going to want to turn this into a

cone shape to do that you take the side

where you can see the straps this will

ultimately be the outside of the cone

you want to put the two ends together

this is where you're going to sew it

together then you'll flip it inside out

what I've been doing is I'll take

another piece of nylon and place it over

that seam which will protect the seam

from Frank when the cones are being used

in the water I'll load this up on the

machine I'm going to change my threading

to a straight stitch because I don't

need that zig-zag pattern anymore

make sure you put two lines of stitching

along this seam so that it's extra

strong then take the cone and turn it

inside out and there you have it that's

your completed cone the next step is to

attach these completed cones onto your

rope so here it is this is our Jordan

series drove pretty much completed I

just have one more cone to attach to

show you guys how I did it all this is a

deploy bag everything's flagged and

ready to go each cone is attached to the

line already and you can go to the

sailrite website and read up on how to

actually attach the first few cones

because there's some measurements there

that are important and they vary

depending on your boat size here's the

rug hook I bought for a couple dollars

at Walmart you can see just right on

this part here there's kind of like an

eyelet and a little finger when you push

this through the rope that slides back

this will move in this direction without

hooking on anything once it's through

the stitching and on the other side but

in this case I'm just going to show with

this hair elastic that gets hooked like

that around the nylon rope then this

little finger closes over that and you

can slide this back through the nylon

and that eyelet remains closed and you

can pull this back out through the

braided line without a catching on

anything it's pretty nifty so what you

want to do is make sure that you measure

roughly from where your last cone would

be ending but not where the knot is

where the cone actually enters the nylon

measure roughly four inches from there

to a new spot on your line and you're

gonna want to take your rug hook push it

into the line but just through the

shielding or the outer braided line you

want to push it in about 3/4 of an inch

or so then turn it about 45 degrees so

that it comes out through the braided

line at an angle that's really important

next find in this case it'll be the end

of the next cone grab your piece of

nylon you want to get that in through

the rug hook like this actually

penetrate into the nylon that's what

works best for me then I close that

little clasp over tappable of the nylon

pull it sideways through the braided

shield and bang it should pop right out

on the other side next what you want to

do is tie a figure eight knot in the

loose end of this nylon rope figure

eight knots pretty simple you can look

it up on the internet on how to do one

but honestly it's pretty easy just

almost figure eight in the nylon then

when you pull that tight try to do it so

that there's very little slack at the

end it's thinking it you will kind of

want to a tight knot in just a little

bit hanging them just so it doesn't

untie itself pull that tight tight as

you can

I like to take a little pair of pliers

and give it a little extra pull like

this

and there you go that knot is going to

lock this nylon in so I pull this down

like this and it locks into the nylon

you'll want to do that for all three

straps on this end when you're done that

side come down to the other end that's

where you're going to do your next three

straps your measurement to find where

the next three straps go in will come

from where this previous track four

truths you measure sixteen inches I find

the sixteen inch mark and that's where

the straps at the top of the cone will

enter and form the full cone shape one

other thing I like to do and you can see

that there's some Frank here at the end

of each of these straps I like to take a

lighter and just burn that basically

melt the nylon so that just quickly like

that just set up you don't have any

loose Frank ends it'll help this live

longer if it gets deployed maybe it'll

last a few deploys before it you know

starts to deteriorate hey guys that's it

for this drogue video I hope you found

it informative remember check out the

sailrite website for details

finish off you drove how long your line

ought to be how many cones you're going

to need how you want to attach it to

your transom all these things are

different for every boat and there's

different ways

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