[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;130860]Hey cappy, wondering what happened to you.
I couldn’t understand what was up with the sea anchor. The ship was going to grapple it and use it as a painter?
Obviously we weren’t there but but just in general…one way to do this is approach the boat so your just setting down on them a bit and drop them down a sea painter. Once they have the painter fast drop them back to where your ladder / net etc is by slacking out the painter as you slowly bring the ship around to a good course. Once you have a good lee and the boat is alongside where you want, haul the crew aboard. The boat crew can use the way to steer the boat away from the hull of the ship to minimize smashing together Of course this is easier said then done, lots of things can go wrong including communications problems.
Years ago we sent a painter down to the crew of a sunken log ship that was in a raft and instead of making it fast to the raft the crewmember that caught the painter tied it to himself and signaled for us to pull him up![/QUOTE]
Hi KC. I got busy with life. Now back to haunt the denizens of the deep!
After reading the posts on the other forum it was stated that the ship approached once and the crew was trying to grapple the sea anchor painter. When that didn’t work they came back and split the difference between the two. it went AROUND the bow of the ship. Drogue on one side, Triumph on the other side. It seems the drogue was really efficient and wouldn’t pull through the water. The only way the Triumph could have ‘gotten propelled’ up to the bow was because the bow of the ship acted like a pulley, with the drogue being more resistance than the Yacht it just yanked the triumph up the side.
To be honest, I never would have suspected that. It must have been a hell of a drogue! Of course, now I would know to pull the trip line as the ship approached (assuming they had one out)
Think how swift it would have been if the ship could have grabbed the painter and they swung around to about 60degrees off the seas! It would have been comparatively a parking lot there. with the Triumph alongside to hop aboard!