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It's actually very easy to explain. If the wind and current were in opposite directions and the current was stronger then wind. A sea anchor would act like an under water sail. So if you had a 5 knot current to the north and a 10 knot wind from the north, the wind would hold your boat up or slow your drift. If you deploy a sea anchor in that situation the current will have more influence on your vessel and would speed your drift up.
Whether the wind and current are in the same direction or opposite direction the sea anchor will always negate the affects of the wind.
It can never speed you drift.
:fishing hook, line and sinker.
Better take a look at your sarcasm meter big guy.
Catchem up!!!!!
BW
1997 Key Largo 201
99 honda 130
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I'm notreely sure how they let people like yourself operate a vessel without some sort of education to improve your limited knowledge!
http://www.sea-anchors.com/sportfishing.html
The most obvious fishing application for a sea anchor is slowing wind-induced drift while bottom-fishing for halibut or rockfish. On windy days when it’s difficult to hold bottom with your bait, this can be a huge advantage, as a sea anchor can reduce drift speed as much as 90 percent. Deploying a sea anchor while fishing a kelp paddy or fishing along a kelp line, dropoff, or other type of basically linear structure on a windy day can also allow you to spend more time fishing and less time repositioning the boat.
A less well-known use of a sea anchor is to actually speed up the drift. In instances when the wind and current are moving in opposing directions and making it difficult to cover ground while drift-fishing --- which happens frequently near the mouth of bays and harbors --- a parachute sea anchor can actually pull a boat along with the current.
For laying-over for a night offshore, a sea anchor is useful in terms of ease, comfort, and safety. If you end your afternoon on a ripping albacore bite, for example, or a paddy loaded with dorado, a sea anchor can keep you from drifting too far away overnight. It’s also significantly safer to spend the night more or less stationary than it is to drift aimlessly. And finally, deploying a sea anchor off the bow can make sleeping much more comfortable buy holding the bow into the seas and keeping the boat from rocking in the trough.
Likewise, in the event of an engine failure in rough weather, deploying a parachute sea anchor off the bow will serve to hold the bow into the seas --- the smoothest and safest attitude for most powerboats. It will also slow your drift, making it easier for rescuers to locate you should you lose communications ability after an initial distress call. Lastly should you be unfortunate enough to lose power near a lee shore, a sea anchor can substantially increase the amount of time you have to work with before potentially going aground.
Even without an engine failure, a parachute sea anchor can be a very good thing to have in extremely rough conditions. While helmsman can generally keep a boat headed into the seas ---and out of danger of rolling or swamping --- with power and rudder, this can quickly become exhausting. A sea anchor can give the helmsman a rest and/or time to attend to other things like pumping operations or repairs. Otherwise, someone must remain constantly at the wheel. Additionally, using power to keep a boat from falling off the wind uses fuel. That may or may not be a critical issue, but in some instances, the fuel used to maneuver in heavy weather could be fuel that was necessary to get back home.
Moreover, especially in smaller boats, bare steerageway --- the minimum speed necessary to steer the boat --- into a stiff wind can be as much as six or eight knots, which may be dangerously fast for conditions. I’m speaking form personal experience here; caught offshore in a sudden 35-knot blow on the Cortez in an 18-foot skiff, we found we had maintain six to seven knots to keep the bow into the wind. Several times, that resulted in the whole boat – and the prop --- becoming sickeningly airborne, but we feared that if we slowed or attempted to turn either way we’d be rolled by a breaking wave. With a sea anchor deployed, on the other hand, the boat is actually moving in the same direction as the wind and waves although its bow is facing the seas --- something virtually impossible to achieve under power.
Hope ya get well soon !!!!
Catchem up!!!!
BW
1997 Key Largo 201
99 honda 130
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Catchem up!!!!!!
BW
1997 Key Largo 201
99 honda 130
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]