From: John Harrington
Sent: April 11, 2017
To: Will Curry – Hydrovane
Subject: RE: Tayana 52 Install

Please do provide my email to the other Tayana owner. We sailed Sunday and yesterday, all worked as expected in light wind up to about 18 kts. Cool machine.

John E. Harrington

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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017, Will Curry wrote:

Hi John,

That’s great, I’ll pass on your email. Nice to hear the first test sails went well. If you get any photos of your install we would love to add them to our website.

Kind Regards,

Will Curry
Hydrovane International Marine Inc.

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From: John Harrington
Sent: April 11, 2017
To: Will Curry
Subject: Re: Tayana 52 Install

Gordon and I have traded emails. I love the idea of comparing notes on a great boat. Our install has a bit of “goopy” 5200 before I calmly and quietly told my helper to not try and wipe it. I’ll fix it later (Marine Formula by Debond Corp – it really does work! I believe I told you about removing a portlight… impossible before I tried this stuff. Chemical Magic!)

The install instructions were very helpful. Preparing the teak timber boards and creating fiberglass reinforced areas for stainless steel backing was probably the hardest part. I struggled with mounting the A-mount a bit but using the PVC pipe let me figure out the right lengths. Go slow, measure and be sure you know where things go was important.

I dry fitted everything, then removed everything and started building the system including 5200. As soon as I tightened things up the structure really showed what great engineering was put into everything. Tight, rigid, awesome and DONE. This took 1 full day 8AM to 9PM. The next day was installing the top, easy job!

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