Nice vlog Mike. The wind vane will certainly come into its own and make your trips more pleasant. I will be installing an self steering wind vane before I slip my boat. Gerard.
@Beorninki sheet to tiller is fine for most boats, however my columbia 27 has a fin keel and untill i get some experience i wont know how sheet to tiller will work on my boat. Gerard.
@ If boat is well balanced and not directional unstabil sheet to tiller-system works well. Most bluewater boats are directional quite stabil, exept race boats. My old amigo 23 and my Amigo 27 of my brother works under sheet to tiller very well, Iain Oughtred Grey seal and nowadays my hurley 22 not so well but it works.
Oh, Mike! You are so lucky! Last year I tried to buy one via ebay. The next day it was gone. We have two boats with this at our Sailing Club , they are working really fine. Good luck with it. Peter
Congratulations! If it is a Windpilot, then it is the older model, which has a direct transmission from windvane to its own rudder. The newer models called Pacific have a pendulum rudder.
Very interesting. I have no wind vane, I use sheet to tiller-system. Just two ropes (from jib to tiller), four blocks and sometimes some rubber tube. Cheap, cannot broke and easy to handle. But when I change my Hurley 22 to junk rig, I definitely need windvane. ps. Sheet to tiller-autopilot is good backup- system to every sailor. When your autopilot broken, you have an other option.
Yes sheet to tiller is interesting and definately something I would like to try one day. Like Joshua Slocum or some other sailor that sailed around the world in a little boat cannot just remember his name now.
@@MikeSantis Good idea. Next summer I would try to make better video. There is lot of videos about system on youtube but one more does not broke internet, I hope.
The precision work in the end of the video was very impressing!!!
Hans is an exellent blacksmith! 🙂
@@nesleinf indeed!!!
Great work, always nerve racking when drilling holes on the boat, but well worth it for this addition.
really nerve racking yes!! Looking forward to really put it in trial!
Nice vlog Mike.
The wind vane will certainly come into its own and make your trips more pleasant. I will be installing an self steering wind vane before I slip my boat.
Gerard.
@@SVGEMSTAR27 it certainly will. Which self steering are you installing?
Do not know at this stage but getting one is on my to get to order as hear in Australia, they are very expensive.
@@SVGEMSTAR27 Try to sheet to tiller-self steering. It work like dream, especially in longkeelers.
@Beorninki sheet to tiller is fine for most boats, however my columbia 27 has a fin keel and untill i get some experience i wont know how sheet to tiller will work on my boat.
Gerard.
@ If boat is well balanced and not directional unstabil sheet to tiller-system works well. Most bluewater boats are directional quite stabil, exept race boats. My old amigo 23 and my Amigo 27 of my brother works under sheet to tiller very well, Iain Oughtred Grey seal and nowadays my hurley 22 not so well but it works.
Oh, Mike! You are so lucky! Last year I tried to buy one via ebay. The next day it was gone. We have two boats with this at our Sailing Club , they are working really fine. Good luck with it. Peter
Thank you Peter. Yes, I'm really looking forward to be using it and get to know it. It is pretty simple though
Looks great !!! it will be a big help and electricity reduction on your batteries ... looking forward to see how it works !! Cheers from Muros !!
@@jesusbeiro6113 sure. I look forward. Maybe I should sail down to Muros to test it 🙂
Looks great! Would love to see more of it in action 🙏
Thanks, Coming!
Nice set up I was very happy with the performance crossing the Baltic to Poland. Simple and reliable and low tech.
Yes very low tech, simple and efficient. Did you get to use it a lot? It needs at least around 10+ knots
@MikeSantis I always had over 10+ knots so not sure with light winds but I used it a lot works wonderful. Has a counter weight for lighter winds
@@brunostromme9904 Yes. It is a wonderful thing to have on board for solo sailors. Still in Poland?
@@MikeSantis South of Spain
@@brunostromme9904 great!
Congratulations! If it is a Windpilot, then it is the older model, which has a direct transmission from windvane to its own rudder. The newer models called Pacific have a pendulum rudder.
Yes, the older models work with their own rudder. The newer ones with a pendulum rudder.
Very interesting. I have no wind vane, I use sheet to tiller-system. Just two ropes (from jib to tiller), four blocks and sometimes some rubber tube. Cheap, cannot broke and easy to handle. But when I change my Hurley 22 to junk rig, I definitely need windvane. ps. Sheet to tiller-autopilot is good backup- system to every sailor. When your autopilot broken, you have an other option.
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Yes sheet to tiller is interesting and definately something I would like to try one day. Like Joshua Slocum or some other sailor that sailed around the world in a little boat cannot just remember his name now.
@@Beorninki maybe you could make a video to show more precise?
@@MikeSantis Good idea. Next summer I would try to make better video. There is lot of videos about system on youtube but one more does not broke internet, I hope.
@@Beorninki the more the better. We all do things differently and others can also learn from our mistakes.