Hi Mike: Please have another look. This was addressed to Maurice Nunas, not to you. Regards, John "Seahorse" Mike Maurice wrote: >First you dismiss the writings of people such as the aforementioned who have >deployed sea anchors in storms and then you proceed to tell us how you'd do >i I did not dismiss their writings. Please don't put words in my mouth. By the way, I also did not say how to do it. What I did was to attempt so summarize the issues. The debate is useful. I have comments from Don Jordan in regards to my post, which I will post later.