From: Brian
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:11 AM
To: John Curry
Subject: re-build time

Good day John and family.

After leaving West Vancouver in January 1980 I have cruised for many thousands of miles. I have owned a number of boats along the way many with different types of self steering, and by far the Hydrovane is my favorite.

I maintain my lifestyle by doing all types of repair on other cruisers boats and over the years have yet to undertake a Hydrovane repair. This brings me to my point of this e-mail. My own unit, after much use, finally needs bearing and bushing replacements. My question to you is …can I use heat on the casting in order to remove some of the frozen grub screws and maybe the more stubborn bushings?

Thank you for your time,

Brian