From: Dee & Pippa
Sent: August-21-12
To: Will Curry
Subject: Re: My Echo Tech DLM-1

Hello Will,

Thanks for your speedy reply.

Our Hydrovane is a marvel. It does much more than the majority of the steering. If there is any wind at all it does 99% of it. I just take over for entering and leaving harbour.

At first it struggled to steer a steady course on a beam reach. Though running and reaching were fine. The solution was in your tips pack, supplied with the basic instructions. I increased the tilt of the wind vane to decrease it’s power. Problem solved.

My biggest surprise was that it steers a good course while on a dead run, with just a zephyr of wind across the deck.

The old truism that you remember the quality long after you have forgotten the price, certainly applies to the Hydrovane

A photo of us on passage with problems aloft is attached. The Hydrovane is once again on the helm.

I will give the Watermaker a descaling as you suggest and let you know the result.

Our quality of life in the tropics has been immeasurably increased by the Watermaker. Originally I thought it rather a luxury. But now we use it every day and would really struggle without it.

We have only been able to collect more than a trickle of rainwater at sea, on one occasion.

In harbour we have often found that drinking water is unavailable, difficult to collect, or worse, contaminated.

I bought the Hydrovane and watermaker with the lump sum that came with my retirement pension.

I couldn’t find a secure investment with a return that even matched inflation. So decided to invest it in Sula (our yacht).

It must rank as one of my better decisions.

Best wishes

Dee

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