From: Karin och Göran
Sent: January 5, 2018
To: Will Curry

Hi,

… Moreover, which I have not told you, we had a rudder problem 300 nm northwest of Cape Verde on our direct route to the Caribbean – why we changed course for the Cape Verde. We used our Hydrovane rudder as an emergency rudder in 35-40 kn. We balanced the rudder with a rather small sail area and it worked!

You can read all about it on www.sypeach.se Unfortunately this particular text is in Swedish when we sent the text to some Swedish sailing organizations. You may be able to read the text via Google translate.

/Göran

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Från: Will Curry
Skickat: den 6 januari 2018
Till: ‘Karin och Göran’

Hi Goran,

Wow, good to hear the Hydrovane saved the day! Can we add this to our website? We will attach your link which will be helpful to other Swedish boats. Did you pass the story onto the OSK sailing club? I google translated the story and got the main idea but was hard to fully understand. What was the cause of the Main steering failure? Was it a broken quadrant?

I’m sure you are busy with repairs but would love to hear further details. Thanks for passing that along.

Kind Regards,

Will Curry
Hydrovane International Marine Inc.

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From: Karin och Göran
Sent: January 6, 2018
To: Will Curry

Hi,

It turned out that it was the steel cables that became very loose why the chain jumped out of place. I was dead worried that it was the rudder itself. It was extremely difficult to do anything when it happened when the wind was close to 40 kn. The conclusion for us is to check the cables every day! Along with a lot of other stuff of course.

Yes, the OSK got the article as did the JRSK which is a smaller club located in Gothenburg. We are members of both clubs.

You can add this to your website. Hopefully it might prevent this to happen to other boats if the crew learn to check Everything on basically a daily basis as we have learned.

Moreover, plan to leave Cape Verde on Monday. And, to find competent mechanics on this Islands is very difficult.

/Göran

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