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[TiggerToo]

We’ve got a Hydrovane wind vane self steering gear on the back end as well. I’m just hoping it works as well as most people say they do.

as you may recall, we fitted an HV last season.

I can happily tell you that Harry-the-Vane is every bit as good as others say. It has literally transformed our sailing (together with its non-identical twin brother Ray, the ram drive down below - at last a mechanic autohelm which actually works).

It's an amazing bit of kit. Even if second hand.

 

[Wansworth]

Don’t self steering gears ever get called y a female name ?

 

[Bajansailor]

Don’t self steering gears ever get called y a female name ?

Seems not - all the ones I have come across have always been male.
One boat had Otto for the Autohelm, and Wilhelm for the Aries vane; another had Gustav for the wind vane, and quite a few wind vanes seem to be called George for some reason.

 

[Wansworth]

Seems not - all the ones I have come across have always been male.
One boat had Otto for the Autohelm, and Wilhelm for the Aries vane; another had Gustav for the wind vane, and quite a few wind vanes seem to be called George for some reason.

One would have thought a lonely singlehanded sailor calling it Anne the auto or Agather Aries?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

One would have thought a lonely singlehanded sailor calling it Anne the auto or Agather Aries?

That could end quite badly?

 

[capnsensible]

Don’t self steering gears ever get called y a female name ?

We were swapping hydrovane stories in a bar in Mindelo, Cape Verdes. One crew called theirs Carly.

Carry Simon was an American singer who had, aeons ago, a hit with the song 'Your so vain'.

Close enough to work.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Its spot on, she is Carly

 

[mattonthesea]

Don’t self steering gears ever get called y a female name ?

I've had three: as the auto pilot is always called George the first Aries was Mildred. Then, on second boat, I fitted Maude. When she was snapped off by a charter boat we invited Maddy to take her place!