Posted 30 March 2023 to https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/returning-home-as-the-days-get-shorter

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This paragraph is taken from a longer and very interesting article on the return sail from Tasmania to Melbourne. Please read more at the link above.]

[…]Soon we put the main away with and sailed on under headsail alone with our new Hydrovane self steering behaving impeccably. I really love this piece of equipment. (again not a paid comment!). It’s beautifully engineered, intuitive to use, silent, requires no battery power and best of all works a treat. We sailed 300 NM with out a hand on the helm, deeper than 160 TWA in 20-30 knots and 2.5 metre seas and she didn’t gybe the boat once, which is more than I can say for most of us humans on board. We’ve named the steering vane Carly. I’ll let you work out why! […]

 

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