From: Larry Read
Sent: March 05, 2012
To: John Curry
Subject: More data

Hello John

We got in some great sailing this weekend and Valerie [the Hydrovane] worked flawlessly. Saturday we used her on a beam reach and she worked as expected. The big news was how she performed dead downwind. I have had so many people with [popular servo pendulum windvane] and other vanes including HVs tell me not to worry about lack of performance DDW. I have taken that as my new challenge. Saturday we sailed wing on wing, DDW with a boat speed of 4kts and an apparent wind of 3kts and she kept us right on course. Yesterday we were wing on wing in 25kts true with bigger seas. It was a wild ride and a little more of a challenge for the HV but we didn’t have to touch the helm.

Nelda and I did get to meet Will and Sarah. They are a great couple and we had a lot of fun. They do need to work on their anchoring 😉 Their HV installation looks great!

[Editor’s note: Our windlass solenoid switch got stuck in the up position…eeek!!]

That’s it from here. We are off to the States for a few weeks before we jump off the first of April.

Larry

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