Subject: Outstanding Hydrovane performance
From: Brett Wilson
Date: Wed, September 9, 2009 12:32 am
To: Will Curry

Hi Will!

Your email prompted me to reply and let you know how delighted we have been with the newly-installed Hydrovane on our Bowman 40 this season.

Its performance has been simply outstanding! It was also extremely easy to set up and learn how to use. We simply balanced the sailplan (as usual) and plugged in the Hydrovane. As easy as that!! Excellent performance without any additional messing or fiddling about.

‘Humphrey’ is now a valuable extra crewmember who relieves us of much of the tedious business of having to stand behind the wheel all the time. Until you experience the benefits of good self-steering it is difficult to appreciate the additional freedom it brings. You don’t need to be a blue-water sailor crossing oceans to derive this benefit either. We also use it on much shorter passages of around 50 miles or so when short-handed and delight in the extra freedom it brings.

Well done Hydrovane! We used a well-known servo-pendulum design on our previous boat but suffered annoying problems with line tension and adjustment. Not so with Hydrovane. Truly ‘plug and play’.

Regards

Brett Wilson

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