{"id":76,"date":"2015-01-17T19:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=76"},"modified":"2020-05-29T08:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T12:01:31","slug":"76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the Series Drogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas jigsaw puzzle sometimes drags into January, this year, the drogue project did likewise. &nbsp;The task of tying the cones to the line was a long one, 744 knots later we are done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-11.52.05-e1424304508932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-11.52.05-e1424304508932.jpg\" alt=\"2015-01-17 11.52.05\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since our last post I have reinforced the splices with whipping and I have whipped the thimbles to the line. &nbsp;Nylon is stretchy and the line I used also has a bit of construction stretch so I wanted to protect the thimbles from the eye opening up under high loads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen has sewn the drogue bag. &nbsp;The bag is designed to allow the drogue to deploy without tangles. &nbsp;We test loaded the drogue into the bag to see how it works and to clean up the living room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-12.19.571-e1424304487430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-12.19.571-e1424304487430.jpg\" alt=\"2015-01-17 12.19.57\" width=\"844\" height=\"1500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fully packed, the drogue is big but manageable for one person to move. &nbsp;We need to add 20lbs of chain as an anchor, but it will all fit in the bag.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-12.28.32-e1424304456651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-12.28.32-e1424304456651.jpg\" alt=\"2015-01-17 12.28.32\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detail of the finished splice with a thimble.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-12.28.45-e1424304191986.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2015-01-17-12.28.45-e1424304191986.jpg\" alt=\"2015-01-17 12.28.45\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Update &#8211; it looks like Sailrite is no longer making the kits, but here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Jordan-Series-Drogue-Instructions-2.pdf\">instructions so you can make your own<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Christmas jigsaw puzzle sometimes drags into January, this year, the drogue project did likewise. &nbsp;The task of tying the cones to the line was a long one, 744 knots later we are done. &nbsp; &nbsp; Since our last post I have reinforced the splices with whipping and I have whipped the thimbles to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,2,3],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-projects","tag-safety","tag-series-drogue"],"amp_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}