Once the whole parachute was retreived we also sailed Dora Mac (again broadreach 22kts) with a partly furled headsail and full mainsail.

Without help from John Deere Dora Mac, with these favourable circumstances, maintained an average speed of 4,1kts and the autopilot had to work quite a lot. All in all a bit disappointing but a fully furled out headsail would probably have given better result.

Finally we ran the boat on our secondary autopilot. It´s a complete independant Comnav system with it´s own compassource (fluxgate instead of GPS compass) and it´s own pumpmotor and steering cylinder working on the tiller arm. It has very few hours on it and was working fine.

Anyone interested in how to launch parachute anchors, we did a video on it years back while in Norway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqMsqGJJoQ8