Ken
John at Attainable Adventure recently wrote a column on the Jordan Series Drogue and the need for installing chainplates. He gave the load figures for attaching a drogue to cleats and/or winches. The numbers were very disturbing. If you don't already subscribe to his site, you should Google it. He has a lot of very good info for blue water cruising. The only other thing I know about the Jordan Drogue is that friends of ours who spent 12 years cruising Europe and recently crossed back across the pond via Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, said that they wouldn't be without a Jordan Drogue. Their only complaint about it was that theirs was stored on deck and when it got wet, it was very heavy to handle and deploy. Have a very safe trip across. Keep us here on the Board informed as to where you are on your journey.
Jim