WCC Forum - Panelist Story
“Having done my first three transatlantic delivery trips without a self steering mechanism my fourth trip on a yacht fitted with a Hydrovane was a real revelation!”
From: Rob Gaffney
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010
To: John Curry
Subject: RE: Your Hydrovane story
Hi John,
“Having done my first three transatlantic delivery trips without a self steering mechanism my fourth trip on a yacht fitted with a Hydrovane was a real revelation! It never complains, doesn’t need feeding , uses no precious electricity and never goes off watch! In order to add a competitive edge to the trips we would regularly see how many miles each crew member could sail by hand steering on their watch. We then found that the Hydrovane would regularly achieve better results than the crew! All in all a great bit of kit that was good fun to use.”
Rob Gaffney
Hamble School of Yachting
023 8045 2668
hamble.co.uk