Flopper Stoppers

I found that keeping Jenny from rolling at anchor is just as important as keeping her stabile underway.  However it took until April, 2009 before I worked out a good solution.

First I changed the rigging of the down hauls on the TPS booms so that I could use them to haul a boson's chair to the end of the boom for maintenance.  Then I bought a pair of Magma Rocker Stoppers.  These are very powerful roll dampers.  I liked the idea of attaching them to the down haul rigging.  This approach allowed me to use the TPS rigging without having to change anything.  Deployment and retrieval was very easy so I could pull the flopper stoppers at will.

I found that the Magma's delivered a huge shock wave through the rigging and boat as the doors opened.  It was way too much.  So I rigged another shock absorber into the Magma rigging and all is well.