- Action: To Do List item A0047 – Wash and shade dry sea anchor; repack chute in stow bag.
- Completed: 11 October 2015
- Cost: $0.0
We brought the Para-Tech sea anchor back with us to Naga City, Cebu when we returned from Indra in September. We downloaded and reviewed the instruction manual from the Para-Tech website. The sea anchor was removed from its deployable stowage bag and appeared relatively unused. However it was not properly packed in the bag and the parachute shroud lines were tangled up.
We inspected the sea anchor material and stitching thoroughly and found no issues. The 316 stainless steel jaw-to-jaw swivel was 5/8-inch in size, the proper and recommended size per Para-Tech's instruction manual. The parachute shroud shackle was galvanized steel and 3/4-inch in size.
Discovered the float line exiting out the bottom of the stowage bag was only three feet long and appeared to have been cut.
A label attached to the parachute material identified the size as 15 feet with serial number 022188.
All the parachute shroud lines were untangled which was quite a puzzle to do.
The sea anchor was washed thoroughly, rinsed, and rotated multiple times to allow it to completely dry out. It was then packed and stowed in the deployment bag per manual instructions.
