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by flowcont 1282 days ago
Yesterday I was looking into rogue waves and found this video[1] where they have a sailing yacht with and electric engine and they say they use the engine in regenerative mode to generate drag in rough, kind of like a sea anchor would do.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wM_CNN3x-I

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Checked out the video but didn't want to fish through 20 minutes for the specific part about regen. engine mode. To be fair don't all props create drag (less so if it's folding) - maybe the prop is "in gear" or similar and would enable more drag that way? Just curious how this works - also a response with the timing in the video when they mention this could maybe be helpful