I bought a wind sock two years ago but never used it much as the lakes on Bluegrass F&W area are not that large.

I picked up a bouy system to use with my wind sock. This allows me to disconnect the wind sock if I get a fish on and the bouy is bright Orange and allows people go go back to find the drift sock after landing the fish.

I think I might need two drift socks to slow my aluminum boat down in high winds. One small Min-Kota Drift sock don't slow my boat down very much. I need more drag in the water. LOL My boat scoots across the water in high winds. I guess it catches a lot of wind and it's light weight so the wind can really effect it.

I tried tying the drift sock to the back of my boat. I have two handles on the back end of my boat, one on each side. So I tied a ski harness to both handles and then tied the drift sock to the center. This harness was one that I used for waterskiing behind my Fishermarine Water Stider III bass boat. I found that I could ski using a 35 HP Johnson Outboard motor with the right prop pitch. And my wife at the time and her young daugher were easy to pull up as they didn't weight much. 120 lbs tops for the wife and 90 lb tops for my step daughter. Even I could ski behind my boat using my old wooden skies. These skies are pretty large and have a lot of surface area to help get me up. But back then I didn't weight more than 180 lbs. Today my 235 lb body would have a much harder time getting up even on two big wooden skies. LOL

One of the reason the wood on the back deck is rotten is because of all the water that got on the deck from the kids and wife climbing up the back of the boat and dripping water on the back deck. I'll have to replace most of that wood someday. I already had to replace the wood inside the door that covers the deck and gives me access to the gas tanks below the deck. That was the port side of the back deck where everyone came aboard and dried off . So that side of the back of my boat got wet more often.