KellysEye
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>2. I believe (based on a sample size of 1! - friends boat) that it will struggle on bigger boats.
I've seen a Hydrovane on a 52 foot boat on the hard in Trinidad. We didn't have a big boat but it was a heavy displacement, long keel with cutaway forefoot, 38 foot steel ketch which weighed 14 tons fully loaded and had no problems with our Hydrovane. To put size into context in Lagos, Portugal we knew the folks on a 32 foot GRP boat with a Hydrovane and their sail and rudder were half the size of ours.
I've seen a Hydrovane on a 52 foot boat on the hard in Trinidad. We didn't have a big boat but it was a heavy displacement, long keel with cutaway forefoot, 38 foot steel ketch which weighed 14 tons fully loaded and had no problems with our Hydrovane. To put size into context in Lagos, Portugal we knew the folks on a 32 foot GRP boat with a Hydrovane and their sail and rudder were half the size of ours.