The Essential Cruising Peacemaker
Turning Your Cruising Dreams Into Reality
English - December 23, 2020 23:57 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MB - ★★★★ - 1 ratingPersonal Journals Society & Culture Leisure sailing cruising boats lifestyle living on the water life at sea ocean crossings sailors motorboats sea life Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A successful ‘Flopper Stopper’ principally has to do two things. (1) Sink easily. (2) Resist an upward force. One simple method is to have a weighted horizontal door. The ‘door’ opens on the way down (sinks) and ‘closes’ on the up lift from the halyards, a bit like a one-way valve. I have plans, in my head, for a stainless steel flopper. Sort of like a flat door in a four-sided door jamb, the whole thing being held by a halyard at each corner. That was not going to happen off the coast of Ecuador today.