From: Alain SANIEZ
Sent: January 26, 2016
To: John Curry ; Will Curry
Subject: A bit of a feedback

One year I ordered our new best mate: Hydrovane

As many people consider self steering system as absolutely unuseful with modern designed boat like Hanse, making that choice was challenging.

We sailed from New Zealand to South Africa, nearly 10000 miles. We have been using both our Hydrovane and the two in board autopilot made by Jefa, with their Simrad wind vane. We did a lot of test trying to challenge each with the other. We sailed the 1000 miles from New Zealand to New Caledonia with the Hydrovane only: it was great and HV did a great job with winds between 10 to 45 kt. Thanks for this beautiful piece a gear which is more than…a piece of gear but a real third mate on board!

You find here under some pics: installation on board of Uhambo, a Hanse 430e, and an overall picture of the visitor’s pontoon in Noumea where we could count nine Hydrovane at the same time!!!!

Kind regards

Alain

Photo: Custom top bracket that incorporates structure for [another windvane servo model] that was removed in NZ.

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