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Almost perfect, although the container is still to large for my needs. I am looking for a 2-person liferaft, very tightly packed to be able to stow it on the back deck on my jet ski.

If any water current is present the sea anchor will take you in that direction. Could be useful in the Gulf Stream going north. Lol

Props to Chip for the video.....given that he’s not a fan. These things do really work well on lighter boats, and being much smaller, are much less difficult to retrieve. Retrieving the big ones isn’t a problem for fishing vessels with their massive gear designed to get heavy stuff out of the water. Every time I see Chip, he’s on a monster. Guess that’s why he’s alive.

How long do these things burn

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Skip is like “yeah, thanks but no thanks. I’ll just heave to!”

This may be the best instruction I've heard so far on para anchors, thanks so much!

Well done video. I read about this in Storm Tactics by Lin and Larry Pardey. It's good to know but you hope you will never have to do it.

more videos like this ,pls .thanks !

When you throw into the water there is a light line attached to the cradle. I see the same on mine. To be clear. The Danbuoy Cartridge should be thrown with this line still attached to the cradle? Thanks!

Well that clears that up 🚁😌

Its not very clear when and why someone would deploy this. Skip says that it ought to be done before the maelstrom hits, and that it's favoured by extremists. Both of those comments raise a number of questions. Like what is an extremist?

Completely useless. In a storm (storm and the sinking of a ship often are combined) these rafts simply sail away fast, sea-anchor or no sea-anchor. People in cold water suffer an acute loss of strength. If they are not directly next to the raft, they have zero chance getting to it. It's a very nice idea, but simply doesn't work under these circumstances.

where can I find re-arming instructions? I want to make sure I fold the balloon correctly

Don't forget to secure the painter to your vessel.

Can it be repacked, recharged (i.e. if you wanted to practice with it?)

Small float in first , followed by main float, then the para anchor, pay it some line and snub to inflate. Then pay out remainder of line. Noticed the lack of a Purdy bridle which would’ve lowered boat speed further by bringing the boat more to a hive too angle of 40-50 degrees off the wind.rather then head to wind which in choppy seas can be up and down up and down ( gets very repetitive) . Try watching lin and Larry purdeys storm weather tactics or the forintino para anchor videos, for more detailed information watch storm tactics and sea anchor 2 video by the Maryland school of sailing .

Great Video!! Decided to buy one and will practise with the crew. Question: can we repack it after use? Thnaks a lot *thumbs up", Erlano - Holland

Very well explained, and also very simple to understand. Today we activated a old one, expired in 2019, but it did work! We are teaching in a nautical school so now we can show to our students how does it look after the activation. We got it from our former student.

More plastic in the sea....

Excellent, very clearly shown

Always interesting to hear Skip talk through sailing safety gear.

Good information Thank you so much sir

Didn't look like "quick and easy" boarding to me... Might be better if he used the steps and the hand holds inside.