Swedish Drift Chute - cheap and comes with meatballs

  I've misplaced my fancy chute, so rather than dig through the stuff in the garage, I made one out of one of those huge shopping bags I bought from IKEA for 59 cents rather than drop the lingonberry jam on the way to the car.  I bought some 1/8 or 3/16ths poly rope (1 buck) from OSH, along with some wider stuff (2 bucks), and a swivel shackle (3 bucks!!) and some bungie (40 cents a foot, 10 ft plenty)cord.
   The only part that will slow you down is that you probably don't have a grommet maker - my wife uses if for sewing - so that you can make two more attachment points besides the two long handles it comes with.  But I suppose you could improvise by cutting off the short handles that are attached under the long ones and sewing them to the other sides.   Make sure you make the lines leading from the handles to the main line at least as long as the bag is wide.
   I used it yesterday at Seaside and it worked at well or better than the one I can't find, doesn't soak up water and rolls up into a small bundle.   
   And it gave me a smile to Okie-fix a bag that isn't very useful for Safeway shopping, though  I have used it to carry garden clippings.
    P.S.: Further details and modifications: Before the second use, I shortened the 3/8" bungee to 3 ft and it still worked fine in good-sized chop and wind . The small lines to the bag handles are 3 ft long, to the grommets, 4 ft (both excluding length for knots), then the swivel, then the bungee (doubled over and held with several nylon ties and wrapped with tape) then the thicker (3/8"-just for ease of handling, not strength) rope, and just where the bungee and rope join, I put the 1 ft section of pool noodle with a weight at one end so it will stand up when I release the chute to make it easy to find. 
  Also, in adjusting the length of the small ropes, I stuffed about 4 pillows in the bag  and held the bag up by the ropes so I could get them all even and tie a knot at the right place.
   There a couple of methods to trolley the boat end of the  chute line forward -1. put a loop in the middle of the line through which the single bow line in placed, the bitter end of the bow line then being secured  near your hands, let the  chute rope slide up the bow line, tie off the chute line at your side, then you can release it in a hurry by letting the bow line and chute line go. 2. what I do - double the bow line into a endless loop, have a snap shackle that slides on the line for the bow, another shackle that slides on the line for the rear attachment to my side handle, and a 3rd shackle that is fixed to the loop - the third shackle is clipped over the main chute rope which is also tied to the handle, then you can trolley the line forward by pulling on the bow rope loop, so you can get the yak to sit the way you want with respect to the wind, waves, and what side you like to fish from. On land, the doubled bow line can be doubled again and the side handle end attached to the bow, making a 4 part shorter loop to put over your shoulder to pull your kayak up steep hills, etc.
   This chute really works well, better than the one I  bought, weighs almost nothing including lines, rolls up small, and you can carry your wet gear or fish in it without it leaking.
   

I can testify that it definitely works. I was fishing next to Tom yesterday and noticed us getting further apart- he was using the swedish chute and I wasn't.

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You bought this in Sweeden? 

Ingenious!  Thanks for sharing.  I have to make me one.  Can you make one that will scare them jelly bellies off my bait?


Rey