From: William Ennis
Sent: April-23-13 3:20 PM
To: Will and Sarah on Hydroquest
Subject: Email

Our friends,

Great to see you both today! Great tats and I think that I’ll get one, perhaps from the same guy. I’ve considered this for a while.

We have been sailing since we bought our first boat in Alaska, over twenty years ago. We bought our Wings, a 1983 Passport 40, and sailed her in Alaska for twelve years, then went cruising. We installed our Hydrovane in 2010 and it’s been providing steering services all the way from Alaska to the Sea of Cortez, now across the Pacific to Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia. Regardless of sea or wind conditions, the Hydrovane keeps us on track. Whether it’s 5 knots or 50 knots of apparent wind, reaching or running, cross seas or following seas, the Hydrovane compensates quickly and without complaint or energy. In this recent Pacific crossing, the Hydrovane kept us on course (relative to the wind, of course) for several days at a time, requiring no tweaking or attention at all. If you can balance your boat and twist a dial, you can successfully operate a Hydrovane. Don’t leave home without one!

Bill Ennis, Conni Livsey

S/V Wings

[Editor’s note: Bill and Conni made landfall in Nuku Hiva around the same time we did. We took this great photo of Bill kissing the Hydrovane. Yes, we were freshly tattoo’ed!]

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